Varaha Purana 218.48: Adhyaya 218, Shloka 48

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Devanagari script

इत्यनुक्रमणिका नाम अष्टादशाधिकद्विशततमोऽध्यायः

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 218.48

Transliteration

ity anukramaṇikā nāma aṣṭādaśādhikadviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

यह चैप्टर अनुक्रमणिका नाम का है। यह २१८ वां चैप्टर है जो खत्म हो गया।

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Word by Word

• इति: thus / end-quote
• इति: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: iti (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; इति-शब्द (quotative particle/end marker)

• अनुक्रमणिका: table of contents / index
• अनुक्रमणिका: Karta (कर्ता/subject; title)
• Type: Noun
• Root: anukramaṇikā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा विभक्ति, एकवचन (fem nominative singular)

• नाम: named / called
• नाम: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/naming)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: nāman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययप्रयोग (indeclinable usage meaning ‘named/called’)

• अष्टादशाधिकद्विशततमः: the two-hundred-and-eighteenth
• अष्टादशाधिकद्विशततमः: Visheshana (विशेषण/modifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: aṣṭādaśa-adhika-dviśata-tama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा विभक्ति, एकवचन (masc nominative singular); क्रमवाचक (ordinal)

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: adhyāya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा विभक्ति, एकवचन (masc nominative singular)

Speaker

Narratorial colophon (compiler/redactor voice)

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• Classical Literature
• Purāṇic Studies
• Manuscript Culture

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