Shloka 21

Ābhūta-saṃplava & Loka-vibhāga

Dissolution Threshold and the Fourteen Abodes

Devanagari script

महेति व्यात्दृतेनैव महर्लोकस्ततो ऽभवत् / विनिवृत्ताधिकारणां देवानां तत्र वै क्षयः

Transliteration

maheti vyātdṛtenaiva maharlokastato 'bhavat / vinivṛttādhikāraṇāṃ devānāṃ tatra vai kṣayaḥ

Translation

Do sự xướng lên vyāhṛti ‘mahah’, Maharloka liền thành. Các chư thiên đã hết quyền vị, tại đó quả thật suy tàn.

Word by Word

• mahā: ‘Mahā’
• mahā: Karta (कर्ता; in quotation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mahā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga, Prathamā (1st), Ekavacana; quoted form in iti (as a name/utterance)

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

• vyāhṛtena: by the utterance
• vyāhṛtena: Karaṇa (करण)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √hṛ (हृ धातु) + vyāhṛta (कृदन्त)
• Form: Bhūta-kṛdanta (past passive participle) used as adjective; Napumsaka, Tṛtīyā (3rd), Ekavacana; instrumental (‘by the uttered [word]’)

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

• mahar-lokaḥ: Maharloka
• mahar-lokaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: maharloka (प्रातिपदिक; mahar + loka)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā (1st), Ekavacana

• tataḥ: thereupon
• tataḥ: Hetu/Upapada (हेतु/अव्ययार्थ)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tataḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya (adverb) — ‘thereupon/therefore’

• abhavat: came into being
• abhavat: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √bhū (भू धातु)
• Form: Laṅ-lakāra (imperfect/लङ्), Prathama-puruṣa (3rd), Ekavacana; parasmaipada

• vinivṛtta-adhikārāṇām: of those whose authority has ceased
• vinivṛtta-adhikārāṇām: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध; genitive)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vinivṛtta (कृदन्त; √vṛt/√vṛt? ‘to turn back’) + adhikāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Bahuvrīhi-like adjectival compound used as adjective; Puṃliṅga, Ṣaṣṭhī (6th), Bahuvacana; qualifying devānām (‘of the gods whose authority has ceased/returned’)

• devānām: of the gods
• devānām: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध; genitive)
• Type: Noun
• Root: deva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Ṣaṣṭhī (6th), Bahuvacana

• tatra: there
• tatra: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (अव्यय)
• Form: Deśa-avyaya (locative adverb)

• vai: indeed
• vai: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: vai (अव्यय)
• Form: Nipāta — emphasis

• kṣayaḥ: destruction/decline
• kṣayaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kṣaya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā (1st), Ekavacana