Monday, April 25, 2016

Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 5/Verse 1

अर्जुन उवाच

संन्यासं कर्मणां कृष्ण पुनर्योगं च शंससि ।

यच्छ्रेय एतयोरेकं तन्मे ब्रूहि सुनिश्चितम् ॥५- १॥

arjuna uvāca

saṃnyāsaṃ karmaṇāṃ kṛṣṇa punaryogaṃ ca śaṃsasi ।

yacchreya etayorekaṃ tanme brūhi suniścitam ॥5- 1॥

Arjuna said, Krishna, you praise renunciation of actions and then [praise] yoga. Which is the better of these two? Please tell me that one, definitely.


arjunas (masculine, nominative, singular) = Arjuna  

uvāca (past tense, 3rd person, singular) = one said 

saṃnyāsam (masculine, accusative, singular) = renunciation 

karmaṇām (neuter, genitive, plural) = of actions 

kṛṣṇa (masculine, vocative, singular) = Krishna  

punar (adverb) (indeclinable) = then

yogam (masculine, accusative, singular) = yoga

ca (conjunction) (indeclinable) = and

śaṃsasi (present tense, 2nd person, singular) = you praise

yad (neuter, nominative, singular) = which 

śreya (comparitive) (indeclinable) = better

etayos (masculine, gentive, dual) = of these two

ekam (neuter, accusative, singular) = one 

tad (neuter, accusative, singular) = that

me (pronoun, 2nd person, dative, singular) = to me

brūhi (imperative, 2nd person, singular) = please tell 

suniścitam (adverb) (indeclinable) = definitely  

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