Shloka 3
Brāhmaṇa-vandana: Criteria for Veneration, Disciplined Speech, and Protective Kingship (अनुशासनपर्व, अध्याय ८)
Devanagari script
भीष्म उवाच स्पृहयामि द्विजातिभ्यो येषां ब्रह्म परं धनम् । येषां स्वप्रत्यय: स्वर्गस्तप: स्वाध्यायसाधनम्
Translation
ဘီရှ္မက မိန့်တော်မူသည်။ «ယုဓိဋ္ဌိရ၊ ဗြဟ္မ (ဝေဒ) ကို အမြင့်ဆုံးသော ဥစ္စာအဖြစ် ထားရှိသူ၊ အတ္တဇ్ఞာနကို မိမိ၏ ကောင်းကင်ဘုံဟု ယုံကြည်သူ၊ ဝေဒကို ကိုယ်တိုင်လေ့လာသင်ယူခြင်း (စွာဓျာယ) ကို အကောင်းဆုံးသော တပဿအဖြစ် ထားရှိသူ ထိုဒွိဇတို့—ဗြာဟ္မဏတို့ကို ငါ အလွန်တန်ဖိုးထား၍ လိုလား၏»။
Word by Word
भीष्मःBhishma
भीष्मः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootभीष्म
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
उवाचsaid
उवाच:
TypeVerb
Rootवच्
FormPerfect, 3rd, Singular
स्पृहयामिI long for / desire
स्पृहयामि:
TypeVerb
Rootस्पृह्
FormPresent, 1st, Singular
द्विजातिभ्यःfor the twice-born (Brahmins etc.)
द्विजातिभ्यः:
Sampradana
TypeNoun
Rootद्विजाति
FormFeminine, Dative, Plural
येषाम्of whom / whose
येषाम्:
TypePronoun
Rootयद्
FormMasculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural
ब्रह्मBrahman; (here) the Veda/sacred knowledge
ब्रह्म:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootब्रह्मन्
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
परम्supreme
परम्:
TypeAdjective
Rootपर
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
धनम्wealth
धनम्:
TypeNoun
Rootधन
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
येषाम्of whom / whose
येषाम्:
TypePronoun
Rootयद्
FormMasculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural
स्वप्रत्ययःself-certainty / self-knowledge / inner conviction
स्वप्रत्ययः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootस्वप्रत्यय
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
स्वर्गःheaven
स्वर्गः:
TypeNoun
Rootस्वर्ग
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
तपःausterity
तपः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootतपस्
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
स्वाध्यायसाधनम्having Vedic self-study as its means / consisting in self-study
स्वाध्यायसाधनम्:
TypeNoun
Rootस्वाध्यायसाधन
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
Speaker
भीष्म उवाच
Character Dynamics
Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)
Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)
Philosophical Teaching
Political Layer
Geographic Context
Meter (Chandas)
Sandhi Notes