Aṣṭāvakra Gītā / Aṣṭāvakra (अध्याय १६) / 16.11
16.11
the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā (अष्टावक्र गीता)
हरो यद्युपदेष्टा ते हरिः कमलजोऽपि वा ।
तथापि न तव स्वाथ्यं सर्वविस्मरणादृते haro yady upadeṣṭā te hariḥ kamalajo 'pi vā |
tathāpi na tava svāthyaṃ sarvavismaraṇād ṛte
The line
Even if Hara is your teacher, or Hari, or the lotus born, even so there is no ease for you except through the forgetting of all.
नेपालीमा
हर वा हरि वा कमलज तिम्रा उपदेष्टा भए पनि सबै बिर्सनु बाहेक तिमीलाई चैन मिल्दैन।
Where it sits
Aṣṭāvakra (अष्टावक्र) is still speaking. Chapter 16 closes by returning to the first line: ease is still the forgetting of all, whoever teaches.
Split: haraḥ (हरः) + yadi (यदि) + upadeṣṭā (उपदेष्टा) + te (ते) + hariḥ (हरिः) + kamalajaḥ (कमलजः) + api (अपि) + vā (वा) + tathā (तथा) + api (अपि) + na (न) + tava (तव) + svāthyam (स्वाथ्यम्) + sarvavismaraṇāt (सर्वविस्मरणात्) + ṛte (ऋते)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| haraḥ (हरः) | nominative singular, masculine | Hara. Recited haro (हरो) before yadi (यदि). |
| yadi (यदि) | indeclinable | if. Recited yady (यद्य्) before upadeṣṭā (उपदेष्टा). |
| upadeṣṭā (उपदेष्टा) | nominative singular, masculine | the teacher. Agrees with haraḥ (हरः), hariḥ (हरिः), and kamalajaḥ (कमलजः). |
| te (ते) | genitive singular | of you, your. |
| hariḥ (हरिः) | nominative singular, masculine | Hari. |
| kamalajaḥ (कमलजः) | nominative singular, masculine | the lotus born. Recited kamalajo (कमलजो) with avagraha before api (अपि). |
| api (अपि) | indeclinable | even. |
| vā (वा) | indeclinable | or. |
| tathā (तथा) | indeclinable | so. |
| api (अपि) | indeclinable | even. |
| na (न) | indeclinable | not. |
| tava (तव) | genitive singular | of you. |
| svāthyam (स्वाथ्यम्) | nominative singular, neuter | ease. The file prints svāthyam (स्वाथ्यम्), where 16.1 prints svāsthyam (स्वास्थ्यम्). |
| sarvavismaraṇāt (सर्वविस्मरणात्) | ablative singular, neuter | from the forgetting of all. With ṛte (ऋते). Recited vismaraṇād (विस्मरणाद्), and here the consonant takes the vowel of ṛte (ऋते). |
| ṛte (ऋते) | indeclinable | except. Takes the ablative. |
The phrases
yadi (यदि) haraḥ (हरः), hariḥ (हरिः), or kamalajaḥ (कमलजः) is upadeṣṭā (उपदेष्टा) te (ते). Even tathā (तथा), svāthyam (स्वाथ्यम्) is na (न) tava (तव) ṛte (ऋते) sarvavismaraṇāt (सर्वविस्मरणात्).
Sanskrit in this line
haraḥ (हरः) before yadi (यदि) is haro (हरो), and yadi (यदि) plus upadeṣṭā (उपदेष्टा) is yady (यद्य्) upadeṣṭā (उपदेष्टा). kamalajaḥ (कमलजः) plus api (अपि) is kamalajo (कमलजो) 'pi (ऽपि). The file prints svāthyam (स्वाथ्यम्), not the svāsthyam (स्वास्थ्यम्) of 16.1. sarvavismaraṇāt (सर्वविस्मरणात्) plus ṛte (ऋते) here joins, sarvavismaraṇād (सर्वविस्मरणाद्) ṛte (ऋते), unlike 16.1, where the virama is kept.
Say it back
Who may be the teacher, and except through what is there still no ease?