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 12.112

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व्यवसायद्वितीयो ऽथ शाद्वलास्तीर्णभूतलम् ।
सो ऽश्वत्थमूलं प्रययौ बोधाय कृतनिश्चयः ॥ ११२ ॥

vyavasāyadvitīyo 'tha śādvalāstīrṇabhūtalam |
so 'śvatthamūlaṃ prayayau bodhāya kṛtaniścayaḥ || 112 ||

Accompanied only by his own resolve, having fixed his mind on the attainment of perfect knowledge, he went to the root of an Ashvattha tree, where the surface of the ground was covered with young grass.
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Glossary of Sanskrit terms

Note: This extracts Sanskrit terms and links to English definitions from the glossary, based on an experimental segmentation of verse (12.112). Some terms could be superfluous while some might not be mentioned. Click on the word to show English definitions.

Vyavasayadvitiya, Atha, Shadvala, Tirna, Bhutala, Sah, Ashvatthamula, Bodha, Kritanishcaya,

Analysis of Sanskrit grammar

Note: this is an experimental feature and only shows the first possible analysis of the Sanskrit text (Buddha-carita Verse 12.112). 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: “vyavasāyadvitīyo 'tha śādvalāstīrṇabhūtalam ”
vyavasāyadvitīyo' -
vyavasāyadvitīya (noun, masculine)

[nominative single]
atha -
atha (indeclinable)

[indeclinable]
śādvalās -
śādvala (noun, masculine)

[nominative plural], [vocative plural]

śādvalā (noun, feminine)

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

[compound], [vocative single]

tīrṇa (noun, neuter)

[compound], [vocative single]

√tṝ -> tīrṇa (participle, masculine)

[vocative single from √tṝ class 1 verb], [vocative single from √tṝ class 3 verb], [vocative single from √tṝ class 5 verb], [vocative single from √tṝ class 6 verb]

√tṝ -> tīrṇa (participle, neuter)

[vocative single from √tṝ class 1 verb], [vocative single from √tṝ class 3 verb], [vocative single from √tṝ class 5 verb], [vocative single from √tṝ class 6 verb]
bhūtalam -
bhūtala (noun, neuter)

[adverb], [nominative single], [accusative single]
Line 2: “so 'śvatthamūlaṃ prayayau bodhāya kṛtaniścayaḥ ”
so' -
saḥ (indeclinable correlative)

[indeclinable correlative]

so (noun, feminine)

[compound]

sa (noun, masculine)

[nominative single]
aśvatthamūlam -
aśvatthamūla (noun, masculine)

[adverb], [accusative single]

aśvatthamūla (noun, neuter)

[adverb], [nominative single], [accusative single]
prayayau -
bodhāya -
bodha (noun, masculine)

[dative single]

bodha (noun, neuter)

[dative single]
kṛtaniścayaḥ -
kṛtaniścaya (noun, masculine)

[nominative single]