Buddha-Carita [sanskrit]

by E. B. Cowell | 2003 | 11,474 words | ISBN-10: 8187418788 | ISBN-13: 9788187418788

The Buddha Carita (Saddharma-pundarika) by Asvaghosa a famous Sanskrit text revolving around the live and exploits of the Buddha. The Buddha Carita (Buddhacarita) is written in the style of a Kavya (or Mahakavya, epic poetry) and extant original Sanskrit text consists of roughly 1,000 metrical verses.

Verse 9.8

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यान्तौ ततस्तौ सृजया विहीनमपश्यतां तं वपुषा ज्वलन्तम् ।
नृपोपविष्टं पथि वृक्षमूले सूर्यं घनाभोगमिव प्रविष्टम् ॥ ८ ॥

yāntau tatastau sṛjayā vihīnamapaśyatāṃ taṃ vapuṣā jvalantam |
nṛpopaviṣṭaṃ pathi vṛkṣamūle sūryaṃ ghanābhogamiva praviṣṭam || 8 ||

As they were going, they saw him bereft of all ornaments, but still radiant with his beauty, sitting like a king in the road at the foot of a tree, like the sun under the canopy of a cloud.
English translation by E. B. Cowell (2003) Buy now!

Glossary of Sanskrit terms

Note: This extracts Sanskrit terms and links to English definitions from the glossary, based on an experimental segmentation of verse (9.8). Some terms could be superfluous while some might not be mentioned. Click on the word to show English definitions.

Yat, Tatah, Tad, Tata, Srijaya, Vihina, Apashyat, Apashyata, Vapusha, Jvalat, Nripa, Upavishta, Pathin, Pathi, Vrikshamula, Surya, Ghanabhoga, Iva, Pravishta,

Analysis of Sanskrit grammar

Note: this is an experimental feature and only shows the first possible analysis of the Sanskrit text (Buddha-carita Verse 9.8). If the system was successful in segmenting the sentence, you will see of which words it is made up of, generally consisting of Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Participles and Indeclinables. Click on the link to show all possible derivations of the word.

Line 1: “yāntau tatastau sṛjayā vihīnamapaśyatāṃ taṃ vapuṣā jvalantam ”
yāntau -
yāt (noun, masculine)

[nominative dual], [vocative dual], [accusative dual]
tatas -
tataḥ (indeclinable adverb)

[indeclinable adverb]

tataḥ (indeclinable correlative)

[indeclinable correlative]

tataḥ (indeclinable)

[indeclinable]

tad (noun, neuter)

[ablative single], [ablative dual], [ablative plural]

tata (noun, masculine)

[nominative single]

√tan -> tata (participle, masculine)

[nominative single from √tan class 8 verb]

sa (noun, masculine)

[ablative single], [ablative dual], [ablative plural]

sā (noun, feminine)

[ablative single], [ablative dual], [ablative plural]
tau -
ta (noun, masculine)

[nominative dual], [vocative dual], [accusative dual]

sa (noun, masculine)

[nominative dual], [accusative dual]
sṛjayā* -
sṛjaya (noun, masculine)

[nominative plural], [vocative plural]

sṛjayā (noun, feminine)

[nominative plural], [vocative plural], [accusative plural]
vihīnam -
vihīna (noun, masculine)

[adverb], [accusative single]

vihīna (noun, neuter)

[adverb], [nominative single], [accusative single]

vihīnā (noun, feminine)

[adverb]
apaśyatām -
apaśyat (noun, masculine)

[genitive plural]

apaśyat (noun, neuter)

[genitive plural]

apaśyatā (noun, feminine)

[accusative single]
tam -
ta (noun, masculine)

[adverb], [accusative single]

ta (noun, neuter)

[adverb], [nominative single], [accusative single]

tā (noun, feminine)

[adverb]

tan (noun, masculine)

[adverb]

sa (noun, masculine)

[accusative single]
vapuṣā* -
vapuṣa (noun, masculine)

[nominative plural], [vocative plural]

vapuṣā (noun, feminine)

[nominative plural], [vocative plural], [accusative plural]
jvalantam -
jvalat (noun, masculine)

[adverb], [accusative single]

√jval -> jvalat (participle, masculine)

[accusative single from √jval class 1 verb]
Line 2: “nṛpopaviṣṭaṃ pathi vṛkṣamūle sūryaṃ ghanābhogamiva praviṣṭam ”
nṛpo -
nṛpa (noun, masculine)

[compound], [vocative single]
upaviṣṭam -
upaviṣṭa (noun, masculine)

[adverb], [accusative single]

upaviṣṭa (noun, neuter)

[adverb], [nominative single], [accusative single]

upaviṣṭā (noun, feminine)

[adverb]
pathi -
pathin (noun, masculine)

[compound], [adverb], [locative single]

pathī (noun, masculine)

[adverb], [vocative single]

pathī (noun, feminine)

[compound], [adverb], [vocative single]

pathī (noun, neuter)

[compound], [adverb], [nominative single], [vocative single], [accusative single]
vṛkṣamūle -
vṛkṣamūla (noun, neuter)

[nominative dual], [vocative dual], [accusative dual], [locative single]
sūryam -
sūrya (noun, masculine)

[adverb], [accusative single]

sūrya (noun, neuter)

[adverb], [nominative single], [accusative single]

sūryā (noun, feminine)

[adverb]

√sūr -> sūrya (participle, masculine)

[accusative single from √sūr class 4 verb], [accusative single from √sūr class 10 verb]

√sūr -> sūrya (participle, neuter)

[nominative single from √sūr class 4 verb], [accusative single from √sūr class 4 verb], [nominative single from √sūr class 10 verb], [accusative single from √sūr class 10 verb]
ghanābhogam -
ghanābhoga (noun, masculine)

[adverb], [accusative single]
iva -
iva (indeclinable adverb)

[indeclinable adverb]

iva (indeclinable)

[indeclinable]
praviṣṭam -
praviṣṭa (noun, masculine)

[adverb], [accusative single]

praviṣṭa (noun, neuter)

[adverb], [nominative single], [accusative single]

praviṣṭā (noun, feminine)

[adverb]