Brahma Purana — The Threefold Suffering and the Path to Ultimate Dissolution, Shloka 19

Devanagari script

अशुचिस्रस्तरे सुप्तः कीटदंशादिभिस् तथा भक्ष्यमाणो ऽपि नैवैषां समर्थो विनिवारणे //

Translation

Câu này chỉ có số “19” mà không có văn bản Phạn, nên không thể dịch nghĩa một cách chuẩn xác.

Word by Word

• aśuci-srastare: on an unclean bed
• aśuci-srastare: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: aśuci + srastara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga (Masculine), Saptamī (Locative, 7th), Ekavacana; karmadhāraya: aśuciḥ srastaraḥ (impure bedding)

• suptaḥ: asleep
• suptaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: svap (धातु)
• Form: Kta (PPP), Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; ‘having slept/lying asleep’

• kīṭa-daṃśa-ādibhiḥ: by insect-bites and the like
• kīṭa-daṃśa-ādibhiḥ: Karaṇa (करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kīṭa + daṃśa + ādi (अव्यय)
• Form: Puṃliṅga (Masculine), Tṛtīyā (Instrumental, 3rd), Bahuvacana; tatpuruṣa with ādi: kīṭadaṃśādayaḥ (bites etc. of insects)

• tathā: also
• tathā: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tathā (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya (adverb), ‘likewise/also’

• bhakṣyamāṇaḥ: being eaten/bitten
• bhakṣyamāṇaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: bhakṣ (धातु)
• Form: Śatṛ-pratyaya (Present passive participle), Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; karmaṇi: ‘being eaten/bitten’

• api: even
• api: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: api (अव्यय)
• Form: Nipāta (particle), concessive ‘even’

• na: not
• na: Pratiṣedha (प्रतिषेध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (अव्यय)
• Form: Niṣedha (negation particle)

• eva: indeed/just
• eva: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: Avadhāraṇa-nipāta (emphatic particle)

• eṣām: of these
• eṣām: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga/ Napuṃsaka, Ṣaṣṭhī (Genitive, 6th), Bahuvacana (Plural); pronoun

• samarthaḥ: capable
• samarthaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: samartha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; predicate adjective

• vinivāraṇe: in preventing (them)
• vinivāraṇe: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vi-ni-vāraṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Napुṃsaka (Neuter), Saptamī (Locative, 7th), Ekavacana; action-noun ‘in preventing’

Speaker

• Narratorial instruction (speaker not identified in excerpt)