Varaha Purana 11.111: Adhyaya 11, Shloka 111

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Devanagari script

सुनलो वायुषक्रौ तु सुवेदस्तु प्रतर्दनम् ॥

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 11.111

Transliteration

sunalo vāyuśakrau tu suvedas tu pratardanam ||

Translation

और कुछ और नाम हैं इसमें। सुनल, वायुषक्र, सुवेद और प्रतर्दन। यह सब नाम हैं।

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Word by Word

• sunalaḥ: Sunala (name)
• sunalaḥ: Karta (कर्ता/Subject—implied in list)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sunala (सुनल प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular; proper name (prompt 'sunalo' interpreted as sunalaḥ)

• vāyu-śakrau: Vāyu and Śakra
• vāyu-śakrau: Karta (कर्ता/Subjects—implied in list)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vāyu + śakra (वायु + शक्र प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Dual (द्विवचन); Dvandva: 'Vāyu and Śakra'

• tu: and/but
• tu: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Discourse particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya, particle (निपात)

• suvedaḥ: Suveda (name)
• suvedaḥ: Karta (कर्ता/Subject—implied in list)
• Type: Noun
• Root: suveda (सुवेद प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular; (prompt 'suvedas' interpreted as suvedaḥ)

• tu: and/but
• tu: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Discourse particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya, particle (निपात)

• pratardanam: Pratardana (name)
• pratardanam: Karma (कर्म/Object—implied in list)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pratardana (प्रतर्दन प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular; proper name/object in list-context

Speaker

Narrator/Redactor (list context not explicit); default Varāha–Pṛthivī frame not directly visible

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Purāṇic Catalogues
• Sanskrit Philology
• Manuscript Fragment

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