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17.6

धर्मार्थकाममोक्षेषु जीविते मरणे तथा ।
कस्याप्युदारचित्तस्य हेयोपादेयता न हि dharmārthakāmamokṣeṣu jīvite maraṇe tathā |
kasyāpy udāracittasya heyopādeyatā na hi

The line

In duty, wealth, desire, and release, and likewise in life and in death, there is indeed no leaving and no taking for any wide mind.

नेपालीमा

धर्म, अर्थ, काम र मोक्षमा, अनि जीवन र मृत्युमा पनि, उदार चित्त भएको कसैको छाड्ने र लिने भाव हुँदैन।

Where it sits

Astavakra is still speaking. The four aims, life, and death are one list.

Split: dharmārthakāmamokṣeṣu (धर्मार्थकाममोक्षेषु) + jīvite (जीविते) + maraṇe (मरणे) + tathā (तथा) + kasya (कस्य) + api (अपि) + udāracittasya (उदारचित्तस्य) + heyopādeyatā (हेयोपादेयता) + na (न) + hi (हि)

Sanskrit, in depth

The words

Word	Grammar	Sense
dharmārthakāmamokṣeṣu (धर्मार्थकाममोक्षेषु)	locative plural, masculine	in duty, wealth, desire, and release.
jīvite (जीविते)	locative singular, neuter	in life.
maraṇe (मरणे)	locative singular, neuter	in death.
tathā (तथा)	indeclinable	likewise.
kasya (कस्य)	genitive singular, masculine	of whom. With api (अपि) and the following vowel recited kasyāpy (कस्याप्य्).
api (अपि)	indeclinable	even, any.
udāracittasya (उदारचित्तस्य)	genitive singular, masculine	of the wide minded one. Agrees with kasya (कस्य).
heyopādeyatā (हेयोपादेयता)	nominative singular, feminine	the state of a thing to be left or a thing to be taken.
na (न)	indeclinable	not.
hi (हि)	indeclinable	indeed.

The phrases

heyopādeyatā (हेयोपादेयता) is the nominative that na hi denies. kasya api udāracittasya (उदारचित्तस्य) is whose that state is absent. The locatives name the fields where it is absent. tathā (तथा) joins jīvite (जीविते) and maraṇe (मरणे) to the four aims.

Sanskrit in this line

kasya api udāra (उदार) is kasyāpy (कस्याप्य्) udāra (उदार). a plus a lengthens, and i before u becomes y.

Say it back

For whom is there no leaving and no taking?