Thursday, June 30, 2016

Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7/Verse 16

चतुर्विधा भजन्ते मां जनाः सुकृतिनोऽर्जुन ।

आर्तो जिज्ञासुरर्थार्थी ज्ञानी च भरतर्षभ ॥७- १६॥

caturvidhā bhajante māṃ janāḥ sukṛtino'rjuna ।

ārto jijñāsurarthārthī jñānī ca bharatarṣabha ॥7- 16॥

Arjuna, Bull of the Bharatas, good doing people of four kinds worship me: the learned person, one's desirous of wealth, the inquisitive, and the bereft.


caturvidhās (masculine, nominative, plural) = of four kinds 

bhajante (present tense, 3rd person, plural) = they worship

mām (pronoun, 1st person, accusative, singular) = me  

janās (masculine, nominative, plural) = people

sukṛtinas (masculine, nominative, plural) = good doing

arjuna (masculine, vocative, singular) = Arjuna 

ārtas (past passive participle, masculine, nominative, singular) = bereft 

jijñāsus (desiderative, masculine, nominative, singular) = the inquisitive

arthārthī (masculine, nominative, singular) = one's desirous of wealth  

jñānī (masculine, nominative, singular) = learned person

ca (adverb) (indeclinable) = and

bharatarṣabha (masculine, vocative, singular) = Bull of the Bharatas (epithet of Arjuna) 

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