Brahma Purana — The Naimittika and Prākṛta Dissolutions: Cosmic Absorption into Viṣṇu, Shloka 9

Devanagari script

पद्मयोनेर् दिनं यत् तु चतुर्युगसहस्रवत् एकार्णवकृते लोके तावती रात्रिर् उच्यते //

Translation

നവമ ശ്ലോകം—ധർമ്മാർത്ഥമായി തത്ത്വം വർണ്ണിക്കുന്നു; അത് ശ്രവിച്ചാൽ മനസ് ശുദ്ധമാകും।

Word by Word

• padma-yoneḥ: of the lotus-born (Brahmā)
• padma-yoneḥ: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: padma + yoni (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Singular; तत्पुरुष-समास (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष): padmasya yoniḥ (whose source is the lotus)

• dinam: day
• dinam: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dina (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative (1st/प्रथमा or 2nd/द्वितीया), Singular

• yat: which
• yat: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative (1st/प्रथमा or 2nd/द्वितीया), Singular; relative pronoun

• tu: indeed/and
• tu: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: Particle (निपात), adversative/emphatic

• catur-yuga-sahasra-vat: like a thousand (sets of) four yugas
• catur-yuga-sahasra-vat: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: catur + yuga + sahasra + vat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular; तद्धितान्त (-वत्) ‘having/like’; compound sense: ‘like (consisting of) a thousand four-yugas’

• eka-arṇava-kṛte: when (it is) made into a single ocean
• eka-arṇava-kṛte: Adhikarana (अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: eka + arṇava + kṛta (कृदन्त from √kṛ (कृ) + क्त)
• Form: Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular; kṛta (past passive participle, क्त); तत्पुरुष: ‘made into one ocean’

• loke: in the world
• loke: Adhikarana (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: loka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular

• tāvatī: of that same measure/so long
• tāvatī: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tāvat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular

• rātriḥ: night
• rātriḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: rātri (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular

• ucyate: is said/is called
• ucyate: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √vac (वच्)
• Form: Present tense (लट्), Passive voice (कर्मणि), 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष), Singular (एकवचन)

Speaker

• Vyāsa narrating