Brahma Purana — The Ananta-Vasudeva Image: From Brahma’s Commission to Puruṣottama Kṣetra, Shloka 61

Devanagari script

तत्र भुक्त्वा वरान् भोगाञ् जरामरणवर्जितः दिव्यरूपधरः श्रीमान् यावद् आभूतसंप्लवम् //

Translation

अस्य श्लोकस्य मूलसंस्कृतपाठः न दृश्यते; कृपया १७६.६१ श्लोकं प्रेषयतु, तदा श्रद्धया सुस्पष्टं अनुवादं करिष्यामि।

Word by Word

• tatra: there
• tatra: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (अव्यय)
• Form: Adverb (क्रियाविशेषण), deictic locative sense

• bhuktvā: having enjoyed
• bhuktvā: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Verb
• Root: bhuj (भुज् धातु)
• Form: Absolutive/Gerund (क्त्वा-प्रत्यय), having eaten/enjoyed; expresses prior action (पूर्वक्रिया)

• varān: excellent
• varān: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vara (वर प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Plural (बहुवचन); adjective qualifying bhogān

• bhogān: enjoyments
• bhogān: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhoga (भोग प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Plural (बहुवचन)

• jarā-maraṇa-varjitaḥ: free from old age and death
• jarā-maraṇa-varjitaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: jarā (जरा प्रातिपदिक) + maraṇa (मरण प्रातिपदिक) + varjita (वर्जित कृदन्त; √vṛj/varj धातु)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); compound: jarā-maraṇa (dvandva-like pair used as member) + varjita = 'devoid of old age and death'

• divya-rūpa-dharaḥ: bearing a divine form
• divya-rūpa-dharaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: divya (दिव्य प्रातिपदिक) + rūpa (रूप प्रातिपदिक) + dhara (धर प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); 'bearer of divine form'

• śrīmān: splendid/fortunate
• śrīmān: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: śrīmat (श्रीमन्त् प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन)

• yāvat: until
• yāvat: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yāvat (अव्यय)
• Form: Adverbial particle (परिमाण/अवधि-अव्यय) meaning 'until/as long as'

• ā-bhūta-saṃplavam: up to the cosmic dissolution
• ā-bhūta-saṃplavam: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ā (उपसर्ग) + bhūta (भूत प्रातिपदिक) + saṃplava (संप्लव प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular (एकवचन); avyayībhāva-like sense with ā- 'up to' + tatpuruṣa 'bhūta-saṃplava' = 'cosmic dissolution of beings' used as limit of time

Speaker

• Continuing narration within Brahmā’s discourse