Brahma Purana — Sāṃkhya-Informed Discourse on the Unmanifest (Avyakta), the 25 Tattvas, and Liberation, Shloka 25

Devanagari script

एतावन् मोक्ष इत्य् उक्तो ज्ञानविज्ञानसंज्ञितः पञ्चविंशतिकस्याशु यो ऽयं देहे प्रवर्तते //

Translation

โศลกที่ยี่สิบห้าแห่งบทที่ 245—ที่นี่ให้เพียงข้อบ่งชี้ถึงบทเดิมเท่านั้น।

Word by Word

• etāvān: this much / so much
• etāvān: Viśeṣaṇa of Karta/Predicate (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: etāvat (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); pronominal adjective

• mokṣaḥ: liberation
• mokṣaḥ: Karta/Pratijñā (कर्ता/प्रातिपदिकार्थ)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mokṣa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन)

• iti: thus
• iti: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: iti (अव्यय)
• Form: Quotative particle (इत्यादि-निपात)

• uktaḥ: is said / is called
• uktaḥ: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √vac (वच् धातु)
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), Masculine Nominative Singular; used predicatively ‘is said’ (elliptic passive)

• jñāna-vijñāna-saṃjñitaḥ: named ‘knowledge and realization’
• jñāna-vijñāna-saṃjñitaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa of mokṣaḥ (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: jñāna + vijñāna + saṃjñita (प्रातिपदिक; saṃjñita from √jñā धातु)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); ‘designated as (saṃjñita) knowledge-and-realization’

• pañcaviṃśatikasya: of the twenty-five (tattvas)
• pañcaviṃśatikasya: Sambandha/Śeṣa (सम्बन्ध/षष्ठी)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pañcaviṃśatika (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter (contextual), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Singular (एकवचन); ‘of the set of twenty-five’

• āśu: quickly / immediately
• āśu: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: āśu (अव्यय)
• Form: Adverb (शीघ्रार्थक)

• yaḥ: who
• yaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); relative pronoun

• ayam: this (one)
• ayam: Apposition to yaḥ (समानाधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); demonstrative pronoun

• dehe: in the body
• dehe: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: deha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular (एकवचन)

• pravartate: functions / proceeds / operates
• pravartate: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: pra-√vṛt (वृत् धातु)
• Form: Present tense (लट्), 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष), Singular (एकवचन); Ātmanepada (आत्मनेपद)

Speaker

• A teacher/sage instructing a king