Aṣṭāvakra Gītā / Aṣṭāvakra (अध्याय १६) / 16.1
16.1
the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā (अष्टावक्र गीता)
ācakṣva śṛṇu vā tāta nānāśāstrāṇy anekaśaḥ | tathāpi na tava svāsthyaṃ sarvavismaraṇādऋte
The line
Tell, or hear, various treatises many times, dear one. Even so there is no ease for you except through the forgetting of all of it.
नेपालीमा
हे तात, अनेक पटक नाना शास्त्र भन वा सुन। तथापि सबै बिर्सनु बाहेक तिमीलाई चैन मिल्दैन।
Where it sits
Aṣṭāvakra (अष्टावक्र) speaks. aṣṭāvakra (अष्टावक्र) uvāca (उवाच) is printed before the verse and is not numbered. Chapter 16 opens on ease as the forgetting of every treatise.
Split: ācakṣva (आचक्ष्व) + śṛṇu (शृणु) + vā (वा) + tāta (तात) + nānā (नाना) + śāstrāṇi (शास्त्राणि) + anekaśaḥ (अनेकशः) + tathā (तथा) + api (अपि) + na (न) + tava (तव) + svāsthyam (स्वास्थ्यम्) + sarvavismaraṇāt (सर्वविस्मरणात्) + ṛte (ऋते)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| ācakṣva (आचक्ष्व) | imperative second person singular | tell, recite. From ā (आ) and cakṣ (चक्ष्). |
| śṛṇu (शृणु) | imperative second person singular | hear. From śru (श्रु). |
| vā (वा) | indeclinable | or. |
| tāta (तात) | vocative singular, masculine | dear one. |
| nānā (नाना) | indeclinable | various. Recited inside nānāśāstrāṇi (नानाशास्त्राणि). |
| śāstrāṇi (शास्त्राणि) | accusative plural, neuter | treatises. Object of ācakṣva (आचक्ष्व) and of śṛṇu (शृणु). Recited śāstrāṇy (शास्त्राण्य्) before anekaśaḥ (अनेकशः). |
| anekaśaḥ (अनेकशः) | indeclinable | many times. |
| tathā (तथा) | indeclinable | so. Recited inside tathāpi (तथापि). |
| api (अपि) | indeclinable | even. |
| na (न) | indeclinable | not. |
| tava (तव) | genitive singular | of you. With svāsthyam (स्वास्थ्यम्). |
| svāsthyam (स्वास्थ्यम्) | nominative singular, neuter | ease in one's own being. |
| sarvavismaraṇāt (सर्वविस्मरणात्) | ablative singular, neuter | from the forgetting of all. Read from vismaraṇāt (विस्मरणात्). With ṛte (ऋते). Recited vismaraṇād (विस्मरणाद्) before ṛte (ऋते). |
| ṛte (ऋते) | indeclinable | except, without. Takes the ablative. |
The phrases
ācakṣva (आचक्ष्व) or śṛṇu (शृणु) takes nānā (नाना) śāstrāṇi (शास्त्राणि), anekaśaḥ (अनेकशः), addressed tāta (तात). Even tathā (तथा), svāsthyam (स्वास्थ्यम्) is na (न) tava (तव), ṛte (ऋते) sarvavismaraṇāt (सर्वविस्मरणात्).
Sanskrit in this line
nānā (नाना) plus śāstrāṇi (शास्त्राणि) plus anekaśaḥ (अनेकशः) is nānāśāstrāṇy (नानाशास्त्राण्य्) anekaśaḥ (अनेकशः). tathā (तथा) plus api (अपि) is tathāpi (तथापि). sarvavismaraṇāt (सर्वविस्मरणात्) before ṛte (ऋते) is sarvavismaraṇād (सर्वविस्मरणाद्), and this edition keeps the virama: the final consonant does not take the vowel ṛ (ऋ).
Say it back
What may be told or heard many times, and except through what is there no ease?