Shloka 10

Cavana’s Tests of Kuśika and the Queen (अध्याय ५३: च्यवन–कुशिक-परिक्षा)

Devanagari script

जलौकसां स सत्त्वानां बभूव प्रियदर्शन: । उपाजिघ्रन्त च तदा तस्योष्ठ॑ हृष्टमानसा:

Transliteration

jalaukasāṃ sa sattvānāṃ babhūva priyadarśanaḥ | upājighranta ca tadā tasyauṣṭhaṃ hṛṣṭamānasāḥ ||

Translation

Bhīṣma dit : «Aux créatures qui vivent dans l’eau, il paraissait agréable à contempler. Alors, le cœur réjoui, elles s’approchèrent et se mirent à humer ses lèvres.»

Word by Word

• जलौकसाम्: of the leeches
• जलौकसाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: जलौकस्
• Form: Feminine, Genitive, Plural

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सत्त्वानाम्: of the creatures/beings
• सत्त्वानाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सत्त्व
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• बभूव: became
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Singular

• प्रियदर्शनः: pleasant to behold
• प्रियदर्शनः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रियदर्शन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उपाजिघ्रन्: smelling (nearby), sniffing
• उपाजिघ्रन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: उप-आ-घ्रा
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural, Śatṛ (present active participle)

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

• तदा: then
• तदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

• तस्य: of him
• तस्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• ओष्ठम्: lip
• ओष्ठम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: ओष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• हृष्टमानसाः: glad-minded, delighted
• हृष्टमानसाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हृष्टमानस
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• water-dwelling creatures (jalaukasaḥ/sattvāni)
• his lips (oṣṭha)