Shloka 48

प्रत्याहारवर्णनम्

Pratyāhāra—Cosmic Withdrawal / Dissolution Sequence

Devanagari script

इत्येष वैषयो रागः संभूत्याः कारणं स्मृतः / ब्रह्मादौ स्थावरान्ते वै संसारेह्यादिभौतिके

Transliteration

ityeṣa vaiṣayo rāgaḥ saṃbhūtyāḥ kāraṇaṃ smṛtaḥ / brahmādau sthāvarānte vai saṃsārehyādibhautike

Translation

かくして、感官の対象への執着（ヴァイシャヤ・ラーガ）は生起の原因と स्मṛti に説かれる。梵天ブラフマーより不動の衆生に至るまで、この原初物質的な輪廻においてである。

Word by Word

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

• eṣaḥ: this
• eṣaḥ: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: etad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular (एकवचन); pronoun

• vaiṣayaḥ: sense-object-related
• vaiṣayaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vaiṣaya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular; adjective qualifying ‘rāgaḥ’

• rāgaḥ: attachment, passion
• rāgaḥ: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: rāga (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular

• saṃbhūtyāḥ: of origination, of coming-to-be
• saṃbhūtyāḥ: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/possessive)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃbhūti (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Genitive (षष्ठी/6), Singular; ‘of saṃbhūti/origination’

• kāraṇam: cause
• kāraṇam: Pradhāna (प्रधान/predicate complement)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kāraṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular; predicate nominative

• smṛtaḥ: is remembered/considered
• smṛtaḥ: Kriyā (क्रिया/predicative)
• Type: Verb
• Root: smṛ (धातु) + kta (क्त)
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त-प्रत्यय), Masculine, Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular; used predicatively ‘is said/considered’

• brahma-ādau: at the beginning with Brahmā
• brahma-ādau: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण/locative)
• Type: Noun
• Root: brahman (प्रातिपदिक) + ādi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter (contextual), Locative (सप्तमी/7), Singular; तत्पुरुष ‘beginning with Brahmā’

• sthāvara-ante: up to the end of the immobile beings
• sthāvara-ante: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण/locative)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sthāvara (प्रातिपदिक) + anta (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Locative (सप्तमी/7), Singular; ‘ending with immovables’

• vai: indeed
• vai: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: vai (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya; emphatic particle (निश्चयार्थक)

• saṃsāre: in transmigratory existence
• saṃsāre: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण/locative)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃsāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Locative (सप्तमी/7), Singular

• hi: for, indeed
• hi: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: hi (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya; causal/emphatic particle (हेतौ/निश्चये)

• ādi-bhautike: in the primordial/material (world)
• ādi-bhautike: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ādi (प्रातिपदिक) + bhautika (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Locative (सप्तमी/7), Singular; adjective qualifying ‘saṃsāre’; ‘in the world beginning with the elements/material’