1.29
वेपथुश्च शरीरे मे रोमहर्षश्च जायते ॥
vepathuś ca śarīre me romaharṣaś ca jāyate
One line. The body, continued. Do not borrow a second line from 1.30.
The verse
And a trembling arises in my body, and the hair stands up.
नेपालीमा
र मेरो शरीरमा कम्पन उठ्छ, र रौं ठाडिन्छ।
Where it sits
He is reporting symptoms to a charioteer as if the symptoms were an argument. They are not, yet. They are the viṣīdan (विषीदन्) of 1.27 felt from inside. The next verse moves from skin to the bow.
Split: वेपथुः + च + शरीरे + मे + रोम-हर्षः + च + जायते
vepathuḥ + ca + śarīre + me + roma-harṣaḥ + ca + jāyate
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| देवनागरी | Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| वेपथुः | vepathuḥ | nominative | a trembling, a shudder. |
| शरीरे | śarīre | locative | on the body, in the body. |
| मे | me | genitive enclitic | my. |
| रोम-हर्षः | roma-harṣaḥ | nominative | the bristling of the body-hair. Horripilation. |
| जायते | jāyate | present, 3rd singular, middle | it is born, it arises. |
The phrases
वेपथुः च … रोमहर्षः च vepathuḥ ca … romaharṣaḥ ca are two subjects. Both a trembling and a bristling. च … च ca … ca means "both … and." Each ḥ (ः) before ca (च) has become ś (श्): vepathuś ca (वेपथुश् च), romaharṣaś ca (रोमहर्षश् च).
śarīre me (शरीरे मे) is where. On my body.
jāyate (जायते) is the one verb for both subjects. It arises.
Sanskrit in this line
च … च ca … ca around a pair means the pair is joint. One ca (च) would be "and." Two, placed after each member, are "both … and" or "… and … alike." You will hear it again whenever Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) sets two things in the same scale.
śarīre (शरीरे) is the locative you learned as "on the field" in 1.1, now on a body. The ending did not change. The noun did.
Say it back
Two symptoms, one verb. Recite the line as a line, not as a half you feel obliged to finish.