Brahmanda Purana — Prakriya Pada, Shloka 83

Lokakalpanā / The Ordering of the Worlds

Cosmogony and Earth’s Retrieval

Devanagari script

तेषां द्वादश ते वंशा दिव्या देवगाणान्विताः / क्रियावन्तः प्रजावन्तो महर्षिभिरलङ्कृताः

Transliteration

teṣāṃ dvādaśa te vaṃśā divyā devagāṇānvitāḥ / kriyāvantaḥ prajāvanto maharṣibhiralaṅkṛtāḥ

Translation

他们的那十二支族系皆为神圣，伴随诸天众；勤于法行，子嗣繁盛，并为诸大圣仙所庄严。

Word by Word

• teṣām: of them
• teṣām: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/षष्ठी)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃ/Napुं, Ṣaṣṭhī (Gen,6), Bahuvacana

• dvādaśa: twelve
• dvādaśa: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: dvādaśan (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Numeral; indeclinable-like in form; qualifying plural noun (vaṃśāḥ)

• te: they
• te: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā (Nom,1), Bahuvacana

• vaṃśāḥ: lineages
• vaṃśāḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vaṃśa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā (Nom,1), Bahuvacana

• divyāḥ: divine
• divyāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: divya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā (Nom,1), Bahuvacana; agrees with vaṃśāḥ

• deva-gāṇa-anvitāḥ: accompanied by groups of gods
• deva-gāṇa-anvitāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: deva (प्रातिपदिक) + gāṇa (प्रातिपदिक) + anvita (कृदन्त; √i/√vī?; here 'anvita' PPP from √i with anu-; 'endowed with')
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā (Nom,1), Bahuvacana; tatpuruṣa: deva-gāṇaiḥ anvitaḥ (instrumental relation)

• kriyā-vantaḥ: active, possessing rites/actions
• kriyā-vantaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kriyā (प्रातिपदिक) + -vant (तद्धित-प्रत्यय)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā (Nom,1), Bahuvacana; possessive adjective (मतुप्/वन्त)

• prajā-vantaḥ: having progeny
• prajā-vantaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: prajā (प्रातिपदिक) + -vant (तद्धित-प्रत्यय)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā (Nom,1), Bahuvacana; possessive adjective (वन्त)

• maharṣibhiḥ: by great sages
• maharṣibhiḥ: Karaṇa (करण/तृतीया)
• Type: Noun
• Root: maharṣi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Tṛtīyā (Instr,3), Bahuvacana

• alaṅkṛtāḥ: adorned
• alaṅkṛtāḥ: Kriyā (क्रिया/विधेय)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: alaṅkṛta (कृदन्त; √kṛ धातु with alam-; Kta PPP)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā (Nom,1), Bahuvacana; PPP used adjectivally