Brahma Purana — The Conflagration of the Great Dissolution and Markandeya’s Refuge at the Eternal Banyan, Shloka 7
Devanagari script
ततो योजनविंशानां सहस्राणि शतानि च निर्दहत्य् आशुगो वायुः स च संवर्तको ऽनलः //
Translation
अत्र श्लोकस्य सप्तमः पादः भगवद्भक्तेः प्रभावं वर्णयति, शान्तिं च जनयति।
Word by Word
tataḥthen/thereupon
tataḥ:
Adhikarana (अधिकरण)
TypeIndeclinable
Roottatas (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
Formअव्यय (indeclinable), तस्मात्/ततः = ‘thereupon/from that’ (adverb)
yojana-viṃśānāmof twenty-yojana (extent)
yojana-viṃśānām:
Visheshana (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootyojana (प्रातिपदिक) + viṃśati (प्रातिपदिक)
Formषष्ठी (6th/genitive), बहुवचन (plural), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (neuter) as measure-qualifier; समासः षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (viṃśānāṃ yojanānām → yojanaviṃśānām)
sahasrāṇithousands
sahasrāṇi:
Karma (कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootsahasra (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), बहुवचन; numeral-noun ‘thousands’
śatānihundreds
śatāni:
Karma (कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootśata (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), बहुवचन; ‘hundreds’ (in apposition with sahasrāṇi)
caand
ca:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootca (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय, समुच्चयार्थक-निपात (conjunction)
nirdahatiburns up
nirdahati:
Kriya (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootnir-√dah (दह् धातु)
Formलट् (present), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (singular)
āśugaḥswift
āśugaḥ:
Visheshana (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootāśuga (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/nominative), एकवचन; ‘swift’ (qualifying vāyuḥ)
vāyuḥwind
vāyuḥ:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootvāyu (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/nominative), एकवचन
saḥhe/that (one)
saḥ:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Roottad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; सर्वनाम (pronoun)
caand
ca:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootca (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय, समुच्चयार्थक-निपात (conjunction)
saṃvartakaḥthe dissolver (Saṃvartaka)
saṃvartakaḥ:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootsaṃvartaka (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; ‘the destroyer/that which brings dissolution’
analaḥfire
analaḥ:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootanala (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; ‘fire’
Speaker
Narrator describing pralaya dynamics