Shloka 42

Devanagari script

तेषां प्रधानाश्चत्वारो विक्रान्ताः सुमहाबलाः / सहस्रबाहुः श्रेष्ठो ऽभूद्बाणो राजा प्रतापवान्

Transliteration

teṣāṃ pradhānāścatvāro vikrāntāḥ sumahābalāḥ / sahasrabāhuḥ śreṣṭho 'bhūdbāṇo rājā pratāpavān

Translation

ان میں چار سردار نہایت دلیر اور عظیم قوت والے تھے؛ سہسر باہو سب سے برتر ہوا، اور جلال والا راجہ بان بھی تھا۔

Word by Word

• teṣām: of them
• teṣām: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/षष्ठी)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter (पुं/नपुंसक), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Plural (बहुवचन); pronoun

• pradhānāḥ: chiefs/leaders
• pradhānāḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pradhāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural (बहुवचन)

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/अव्यय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya; conjunction (समुच्चयबोधक)

• catvāraḥ: four
• catvāraḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: catvāri (संख्याशब्द-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural (बहुवचन); numeral adjective

• vikrāntāḥ: valiant
• vikrāntāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vi + kram (क्रम् धातु)
• Form: Kṛdanta: past active participle (क्त/PPP used adjectivally), Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural (बहुवचन); from √kram with prefix vi-; sense: valiant

• sumahābalāḥ: of very great strength
• sumahābalāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: su + mahā + bala (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural (बहुवचन); समासः—कर्मधारय (su-mahā-bala: very great strength)

• sahasrabāhuḥ: Sahasrabāhu (thousand-armed one)
• sahasrabāhuḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sahasra + bāhu (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); बहुव्रीहि—'one who has a thousand arms'

• śreṣṭhaḥ: best
• śreṣṭhaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: śreṣṭha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन)

• abhūt: was/became
• abhūt: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: bhū (भू धातु)
• Form: Laṅ-lakāra (लङ्/imperfect past), Prathama-puruṣa (3rd person/प्रथम), Singular (एकवचन); parasmaipada

• bāṇaḥ: Bāṇa
• bāṇaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bāṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन)

• rājā: king
• rājā: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: rājan (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन)

• pratāpavān: mighty
• pratāpavān: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pratāpa-vat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); possessive suffix -वत्