Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 14/Verse 5

सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः ।

निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम् ॥१४- ५॥


sattvaṃ rajastama iti guṇāḥ prakṛtisaṃbhavāḥ ।


nibadhnanti mahābāho dehe dehinamavyayam ॥14- 5॥


Sattva, rajas, tamas are the gunas, originating in material nature, bind the imperishable embodied in the body, O Great Armed One. 



sattvam (neuter, nominative, singular) = sattva


rajas (neuter, nominative, singular) = rajas


tamas (neuter, nominative, singular) = tamas


iti (punctuation) (indeclinable) = (syntax marker)


guṇās (masculine, nominative, plural) = gunas


prakṛtisaṃbhavās (prakṛti + saṃbhavās) (masculine, nominative, plural) = originating in material nature 




nibadhnanti (present tense, 3rd person, plural) = they bind 


mahābāho (masculine, vocative, singular) = O Great Armed One (epithet of Arjuna)  


dehe (masculine/neuter, locative, singular) = in the body 


dehinam (masculine, accusative, singular) = the embodied 


avyayam (masculine, accusative, singular) = imperishable 



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