Sutra 63

Devanagari script

तस्य पूर्वः पूर्वः श्रेयान्प्रतिकर्तुम् ॥ कZ_०९.७.६३ ॥

Transliteration

tasya pūrvaḥ pūrvaḥ śreyān pratikartum

Translation

ဤအန္တရာယ်များကို တုံ့ပြန်ရာတွင် အရင်ဖော်ပြထားသော အန္တရာယ်ကို အရင်ဆုံး ကိုင်တွယ်သင့်သည် (ဦးစားပေး: အနတ္ထ ကို အဓမ္မ မတိုင်မီ၊ အဓမ္မ ကို သောက မတိုင်မီ)။

Word by Word

• तस्य: of him/that; his/its
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: षष्ठी-एकवचनम्, पुं/नपुं (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• पूर्वः: the former/earlier (one)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: पूर्व
• Form: प्रथमा-एकवचनम्, पुंलिङ्गम्

• पूर्वः: the former/earlier (one) (i.e., each preceding one)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: पूर्व
• Form: प्रथमा-एकवचनम्, पुंलिङ्गम् (पुनरुक्ति/अनुक्रम-निर्देशः)

• श्रेयान्: better; preferable
• Type: Adjective (comparative)
• Root: श्रेयस्
• Form: प्रथमा-एकवचनम्, पुंलिङ्गम्; तुलनात्मक-विशेषणम् (comparative)

• प्रतिकर्तुम्: to counteract; to retaliate; to make a response
• Type: Verb (infinitive)
• Root: √कृ (करोति) उपसर्गः प्रति-
• Form: तुमुन्-प्रत्ययान्तम् (infinitive), परस्मैपदी-धातु; अर्थः—प्रतिउपकार/प्रतिदण्ड-करणे

Entities Mentioned

• anartha
• adharma
• śoka

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What is the implied triage logic?

Stabilize material capacity and losses (anartha) first, then restore lawful order (adharma), then address grief/distress (śoka) as a downstream consequence.