Aṣṭāvakra Gītā / Janaka (अध्याय १४) / 14.2
14.2
the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā (अष्टावक्र गीता)
क्व धनानि क्व मित्राणि क्व मे विषयदस्यवः ।
क्व शास्त्रं क्व च विज्ञानं यदा मे गलिता स्पृहा kva dhanāni kva mitrāṇi kva me viṣayadasyavaḥ |
kva śāstraṃ kva ca vijñānaṃ yadā me galitā spṛhā
The line
Where is wealth, where are friends, where are the thieves that are my sense objects? Where is scripture, and where discerning, when my longing has melted?
नेपालीमा
धन कहाँ, मित्र कहाँ, मेरा विषयरूपी चोर कहाँ? शास्त्र कहाँ, र विज्ञान कहाँ, जब मेरो स्पृहा पग्लिसकेको छ?
Where it sits
Janaka is still speaking. The questions stand only while longing is said to have melted.
Split: kva (क्व) + dhanāni (धनानि) + kva (क्व) + mitrāṇi (मित्राणि) + kva (क्व) + me (मे) + viṣayadasyavaḥ (विषयदस्यवः) + kva (क्व) + śāstram (शास्त्रम्) + kva (क्व) + ca (च) + vijñānam (विज्ञानम्) + yadā (यदा) + me (मे) + galitā (गलिता) + spṛhā (स्पृहा)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| kva (क्व) | indeclinable | where? |
| dhanāni (धनानि) | nominative plural, neuter | wealth. |
| kva (क्व) | indeclinable | where? |
| mitrāṇi (मित्राणि) | nominative plural, neuter | friends. |
| kva (क्व) | indeclinable | where? |
| me (मे) | genitive singular | of me. With viṣayadasyavaḥ (विषयदस्यवः). |
| viṣayadasyavaḥ (विषयदस्यवः) | nominative plural, masculine | the thieves that are sense objects. Read from dasyavaḥ (दस्यवः). |
| kva (क्व) | indeclinable | where? |
| śāstram (शास्त्रम्) | nominative singular, neuter | treatise, scripture. |
| kva (क्व) | indeclinable | where? |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and. |
| vijñānam (विज्ञानम्) | nominative singular, neuter | knowledge, discerning. |
| yadā (यदा) | indeclinable | when. |
| me (मे) | genitive singular | of me. With spṛhā (स्पृहा). |
| galitā (गलिता) | nominative singular, feminine | melted. Agrees with spṛhā (स्पृहा). |
| spṛhā (स्पृहा) | nominative singular, feminine | longing. |
The phrases
Each kva (क्व) questions a nominative: dhanāni (धनानि), mitrāṇi (मित्राणि), viṣayadasyavaḥ (विषयदस्यवः), śāstram (शास्त्रम्), vijñānam (विज्ञानम्). yadā (यदा) gives the condition, me (मे) galitā (गलिता) spṛhā (स्पृहा).
Sanskrit in this line
The visarga of viṣayadasyavaḥ (विषयदस्यवः) stays at the pause. śāstram (शास्त्रम्) and vijñānam (विज्ञानम्) are written with anusvara before the following consonants.
Say it back
When is he asking where wealth, friends, scripture, and discerning are?