Shloka 102

Adhyāya 284: Tapas as a Corrective to Household Attachment

Parāśara’s Instruction

Devanagari script

यज्ञवाहाय दान्ताय तप्यायातपनाय च | नमस्तटाय तट्याय तटानां पतये नमः

Transliteration

yajñavāhāya dāntāya tapyāyātapanāya ca | namas taṭāya taṭyāya taṭānāṃ pataye namaḥ ||

Translation

Bhīṣma offers reverential salutations to the sacred power addressed here: the bearer of sacrifice, the self-restrained, tapas itself—the ascetic heat—and the one who endures heat; to the river-bank and what belongs to the bank; and again to the lord of all banks.

Word by Word

• यज्ञवाहाय: to the bearer/carrier of the sacrifice
• यज्ञवाहाय: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: यज्ञवाह
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• दान्ताय: to the self-controlled (one)
• दान्ताय: Sampradana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दान्त
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• तप्याय: to the ascetic / one devoted to tapas
• तप्याय: Sampradana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तप्य
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• आतपनाय: to the heat/sunshine (as a divine epithet)
• आतपनाय: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आतपन
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• नमः: salutation
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नमस्

• तटाय: to the bank/shore
• तटाय: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: तट
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• तट्याय: to the one pertaining to the bank/shore
• तट्याय: Sampradana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तट्य
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• तटानाम्: of banks/shores
• तटानाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: तट
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• पतये: to the lord/master
• पतये: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पति
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• नमः: salutation
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नमस्

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• yajña (sacrifice)
• tapas (austerity)
• taṭa (river-bank/shore)