Brahma Purana — Krishna Restores Dynastic Order: Ugrasena’s Coronation and the Retrieval of Sandipani’s Son, Shloka 31

Devanagari script

तं बालं यातनासंस्थं यथापूर्वशरीरिणम् पित्रे प्रदत्तवान् कृष्णो बलश् च बलिनां वरः //

Translation

この偈（第194章・第31偈）は、賢者はダルマを護持し、古来の伝統を敬うべきであると結ぶ。

Word by Word

• tam: that
• tam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Dvitīyā, Ekavacana

• bālam: boy/child
• bālam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bāla (प्रातिपदik)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Dvitīyā, Ekavacana

• yātanā-saṃstham: placed in torment
• yātanā-saṃstham: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: yātanā + saṃstha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Dvitīyā, Ekavacana; saptamī/locative-tatpuruṣa sense: “yātanāyām saṃsthaḥ” (situated in torment) qualifying bālam

• yathā-pūrva-śarīriṇam: having his former body (restored)
• yathā-pūrva-śarīriṇam: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: yathā (अव्यय) + pūrva + śarīrin (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Dvitīyā, Ekavacana; avyayībhāva: “yathā pūrvam” + śarīrin = “having a body as before” qualifying bālam

• pitre: to the father
• pitre: Sampradāna (सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pitṛ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Caturthī vibhakti (Dative, 4th), Ekavacana

• pradattavān: gave/returned
• pradattavān: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dā (धातु) + kta-vat (कृत्) with pra-
• Form: Kṛdanta (क्तवत्-anta) perfective participle used as finite; Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; “one who has given/returned”

• kṛṣṇaḥ: Kṛṣṇa
• kṛṣṇaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kṛṣṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana

• balaḥ: Bala (Baladeva)
• balaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bala (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; here = Baladeva (short name)

• ca: and
• ca: Nipāta (निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya; conjunction

• balinām: of the strong
• balinām: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: balin (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Ṣaṣṭhī, Bahuvacana; “of the strong (ones)”

• varaḥ: the best/excellent one
• varaḥ: Samānādhikaraṇa (समानाधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; predicate/apposition to balaḥ

Speaker

• Narrator voice (continuation; explicit speaker not marked in this verse)