Aṣṭāvakra Gītā / Aṣṭāvakra (अध्याय १०) / 10.6
10.6
the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā (अष्टावक्र गीता)
राज्यं सुताः कलत्राणि शरीराणि सुखानि च ।
संसक्तस्यापि नष्टानि तव जन्मनि जन्मनि rājyaṃ sutāḥ kalatrāṇi śarīrāṇi sukhāni ca |
saṃsaktasyāpi naṣṭāni tava janmani janmani
The line
Kingdom, sons, wives, bodies, and pleasures, even of one who clung to them, have been lost in birth after birth. They were yours.
नेपालीमा
राज्य, छोरा, पत्नी, शरीर र सुख, तिनमा आसक्त हुँदा पनि, जन्म जन्ममा नाश भए। ती तिम्रा थिए।
Where it sits
Astavakra is still speaking. What was clung to is already lost in every birth.
Split: rājyam (राज्यम्) + sutāḥ (सुताः) + kalatrāṇi (कलत्राणि) + śarīrāṇi (शरीराणि) + sukhāni (सुखानि) + ca (च) + saṃsaktasya (संसक्तस्य) + api (अपि) + naṣṭāni (नष्टानि) + tava (तव) + janmani (जन्मनि) + janmani (जन्मनि)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| rājyam (राज्यम्) | nominative singular, neuter | a kingdom. |
| sutāḥ (सुताः) | nominative plural, masculine | sons. |
| kalatrāṇi (कलत्राणि) | nominative plural, neuter | wives. |
| śarīrāṇi (शरीराणि) | nominative plural, neuter | bodies. |
| sukhāni (सुखानि) | nominative plural, neuter | pleasures. |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and. |
| saṃsaktasya (संसक्तस्य) | genitive singular, masculine | of one who was attached. Joined to api (अपि) as saṃsaktasyāpi (संसक्तस्यापि). |
| api (अपि) | indeclinable | even. |
| naṣṭāni (नष्टानि) | past participle, nominative plural, neuter | lost. The neuter plural stands for the whole list. |
| tava (तव) | genitive singular | of you. |
| janmani (जन्मनि) | locative singular, neuter | in a birth. |
| janmani (जन्मनि) | locative singular, neuter | in birth after birth. |
The phrases
The list from rājyam (राज्यम्) through sukhāni (सुखानि) is the subject of naṣṭāni (नष्टानि). saṃsaktasya (संसक्तस्य) api and tava say whose they were. The repeated janmani is the time.
Sanskrit in this line
saṃsaktasya (संसक्तस्य) plus api is saṃsaktasyāpi (संसक्तस्यापि).
Say it back
In what repeated time were they lost?