Shloka 21

मनुरुवाच — इन्द्रिय-मनः-ज्ञान-क्रमः

Manu on the hierarchy of senses, mind, and knowledge

Devanagari script

स वै तस्यामवस्थायां सर्वत्यागकृत: सुखम्‌ । निरिच्छस्त्यजति प्राणान्‌ ब्राह्मीं संविशते तनुम्‌ू

Transliteration

sa vai tasyām avasthāyāṁ sarvatyāgakṛtaḥ sukham | niricchas tyajati prāṇān brāhmīṁ saṁviśate tanum ||

Translation

ဘိဿမက ပြောသည်— ထိုအခြေအနေ၌ တည်နေသော ယောဂီသည် အလုံးစုံစွန့်လွှတ်ခြင်းမှ ပေါ်ထွန်းလာသော အာနန္ဒကို ခံစားရ၏။ ဆန္ဒကင်းစင်၍ အသက်ရှုသက်ကို စွန့်လွှတ်ကာ ဗြဟ္မသဘောသို့ ဝင်ရောက်၍ ဗြဟ္မန်၏ သန့်ရှင်းသော အမှန်တရား၌ တည်နေ၏။

Word by Word

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• वै: indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वै

• तस्याम्: in that
• तस्याम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Feminine, Locative, Singular

• अवस्थायाम्: state/condition
• अवस्थायाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अवस्था
• Form: Feminine, Locative, Singular

• सर्वत्यागकृतः: one who has performed total renunciation
• सर्वत्यागकृतः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्वत्यागकृत्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सुखम्: happiness/bliss
• सुखम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुख
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• निरिच्छः: desireless
• निरिच्छः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: निरिच्छ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• त्यजति: abandons
• Type: Verb
• Root: त्यज्
• Form: Present, Indicative, Third, Singular, Parasmaipada

• प्राणान्: vital breaths/life
• प्राणान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्राण
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• ब्राह्मीम्: brahmic, pertaining to Brahman
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ब्राह्मी
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• संविशते: enters/merges into
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-विश्
• Form: Present, Indicative, Third, Singular, Atmanepada

• तनुम्: body/form
• तनुम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: तनु
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• yogin
• prāṇa (vital breaths)
• Brahman (brāhmī avasthā)