Brahmanda Purana — Prakriya Pada, Shloka 135
Lokakalpanā / The Ordering of the Worlds
Cosmogony and Earth’s Retrieval
Devanagari script
शार इत्येव शीर्णे तु नानार्थो धातु रुच्यते / एकार्णवे भवन्त्यापो न शीर्णास्तेन ता नराः
Transliteration
śāra ityeva śīrṇe tu nānārtho dhātu rucyate / ekārṇave bhavantyāpo na śīrṇāstena tā narāḥ
Translation
“沙罗”（śāra）一词在“破碎、败坏”之义上被视为多义词根；然而诸水汇为一体于同一阿尔那瓦中，因此并不败坏——如是所说。
Word by Word
śāraḥ‘śāra’ (term)
śāraḥ:
Karta (कर्ता; of naming/meaning statement)
TypeNoun
Rootśāra (प्रातिपदिक)
FormMasculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन)
itithus
iti:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध; quotation marker)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootiti (अव्यय)
FormQuotative particle (इति-निपात)
evaindeed
eva:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
TypeIndeclinable
Rooteva (अव्यय)
FormEmphatic particle (निपात)
śīrṇein (the sense of) ‘decayed/broken’
śīrṇe:
Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण; semantic domain)
TypeAdjective
Root√śṝ (शॄ धातु)
FormPast passive participle (क्त), Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular (एकवचन), Masculine/Neuter (पुं/नपुंसक); ‘in the decayed/broken (sense)’
tubut
tu:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
TypeIndeclinable
Roottu (अव्यय)
FormContrast particle (निपात)
nānārthaḥhaving many meanings
nānārthaḥ:
Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootnānā + artha (प्रातिपदिक)
FormMasculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); qualifies dhātuḥ
dhātuḥroot (verbal root)
dhātuḥ:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootdhātu (प्रातिपदिक)
FormMasculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन)
rucyateis accepted/has the sense
rucyate:
Kriyā (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√ruc (रुच् धातु)
FormPresent (लट्), 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष), Singular (एकवचन), Ātmanepada (आत्मनेपद); impersonal ‘is accepted/pleases’
eka-arṇavein the one ocean
eka-arṇave:
Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rooteka + arṇava (प्रातिपदिक)
FormMasculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular (एकवचन); ‘in the single ocean’
bhavantibecome/are
bhavanti:
Kriyā (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√bhū (भू धातु)
FormPresent (लट्), 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष), Plural (बहुवचन), Parasmaipada (परस्मैपद)
āpaḥwaters
āpaḥ:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootap (आप्/अप् प्रातिपदिक)
FormFeminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural (बहुवचन)
nanot
na:
Pratiṣedha (प्रतिषेध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootna (अव्यय)
FormNegation particle (निषेध-निपात)
śīrṇāḥdecayed/broken
śīrṇāḥ:
Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Root√śṝ (शॄ धातु)
FormPast passive participle (क्त), Feminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural (बहुवचन); qualifies āpaḥ
tenatherefore/by that
tena:
Karaṇa/Hetu (करण/हेतु)
TypeNoun
Roottad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
FormNeuter/Masculine (नपुंसक/पुं), Instrumental (3rd/तृतीया), Singular (एकवचन)
tāḥthose (waters)
tāḥ:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Roottad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
FormFeminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural (बहुवचन); refers to āpaḥ
narāḥmen/people
narāḥ:
Sambodhana/Karta (सम्बोधन/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootnara (प्रातिपदिक)
FormMasculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural (बहुवचन); likely vocative-like address or apposition to audience