Brahma Purana — The Path of Liberation: Self-Knowledge, Sense-Restraint, and Crossing the River of Worldly Flow, Shloka 56

Devanagari script

कामक्रोधौ वशे कृत्वा निर्विशेद् ब्रह्मणः पदम् अमूढत्वम् असङ्गित्वं कामक्रोधविवर्जनम् //

Translation

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Word by Word

• kāma-krodhau: desire and anger
• kāma-krodhau: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kāma (प्रातिपदिक) + krodha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Dual (द्विवचन); इतरेतर-द्वन्द्वः

• vaśe: under control
• vaśe: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vaśa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular (एकवचन); adverbial locative ‘under control’

• kṛtvā: having brought (them)
• kṛtvā: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √kṛ (कृ धातु)
• Form: Absolutive/Gerund (क्त्वान्त), indeclinable verbal form; ‘having made/placed’

• nirviśet: should enter
• nirviśet: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: nir-√viś (विश् धातु)
• Form: Optative (विधिलिङ्), 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष), Singular (एकवचन), Parasmaipada (परस्मैपद)

• brahmaṇaḥ: of Brahman
• brahmaṇaḥ: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/षष्ठी)
• Type: Noun
• Root: brahman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Singular (एकवचन)

• padam: state/abode
• padam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pada (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular (एकवचन)

• amūḍhatvam: non-delusion/clarity
• amūḍhatvam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: a-mūḍha-tva: a- (नञ्) + mūḍha (√muh मुह् धातु, क्त) + -tva (त्व)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative/Accusative (1st/2nd), Singular (एकवचन); abstract noun in -tva

• asaṅgitvam: non-attachment
• asaṅgitvam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: a-saṅgin-tva: a- (नञ्) + saṅgin (प्रातिपदिक) + -tva (त्व)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative/Accusative (1st/2nd), Singular (एकवचन); abstract noun in -tva

• kāma-krodha-vivarjanam: abandoning desire and anger
• kāma-krodha-vivarjanam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kāma (प्रातिपदिक) + krodha (प्रातिपदिक) + vivarjana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative/Accusative (1st/2nd), Singular (एकवचन); षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः: kāma-krodhayoḥ vivarjanam (abandonment of desire and anger)

Speaker

• Didactic narrator/teacher voice addressing the aspirant (general instruction; specific interlocutors not named in these verses).