Brahmanda Purana — Anushanga Pada, Shloka 11

सगरदिग्विजयः

Sagara’s World-Conquest / Digvijaya

Devanagari script

जनाः परगुणप्रीताः स्वसंपर्काभिकाङ्क्षिणाः / गुरुषु प्रणता नित्यं सद्विद्याव्यसनादृताः

Transliteration

janāḥ paraguṇaprītāḥ svasaṃparkābhikāṅkṣiṇāḥ / guruṣu praṇatā nityaṃ sadvidyāvyasanādṛtāḥ

Translation

Dân chúng vui mừng trước đức hạnh của người khác, khát cầu satsang; luôn cúi lạy các bậc thầy và chuyên cần trong sadvidyā thanh cao.

Word by Word

• janāḥ: people
• janāḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: jana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन)

• para-guṇa-prītāḥ: delighting in others' virtues
• para-guṇa-prītāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण) of janāḥ
• Type: Adjective
• Root: para (प्रातिपदिक) + guṇa (प्रातिपदिक) + prīta (कृदन्त; √prī प्रीञ्)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन); prīta = past participle (क्त) used adjectivally; compound: paraguṇe prītāḥ (locative-tatpuruṣa sense)

• sva-saṃparka-abhikāṅkṣiṇāḥ: desiring association with their own (good) circle
• sva-saṃparka-abhikāṅkṣiṇāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण) of janāḥ
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sva (प्रातिपदिक) + saṃparka (प्रातिपदिक) + abhikāṅkṣin (कृदन्त; √kāṅkṣ काङ्क्ष्)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन); abhikāṅkṣin = present participial/agentive (शतृ/णिनि-प्राय) ‘desiring’; compound: svasaṃparkaṃ abhikāṅkṣiṇaḥ (object-tatpuruṣa)

• guruṣu: towards/in the teachers
• guruṣu: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: guru (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Locative (सप्तमी/7), Plural (बहुवचन)

• praṇatāḥ: bowed down, respectful
• praṇatāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण) of janāḥ
• Type: Adjective
• Root: praṇata (कृदन्त; √nam नम्)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन); past participle (क्त)

• nityam: always
• nityam: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: nitya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Avyaya (अव्यय), adverb (क्रियाविशेषण)

• sat-vidyā-vyasana-ādṛtāḥ: esteeming devotion to true knowledge
• sat-vidyā-vyasana-ādṛtāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण) of janāḥ
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sat (प्रातिपदिक) + vidyā (प्रातिपदिक) + vyasana (प्रातिपदिक) + ādṛta (कृदन्त; √dṛ/ādṛ आदृ)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन); ādṛta = past participle (क्त) ‘respected/valued’; compound sense: sadvidyāvyasane ādṛtāḥ (locative-tatpuruṣa: ‘valuing devotion/addiction to true knowledge’)