6.42
अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम् ।
एतद्धि दुर्लभतरं लोके जन्म यदीदृशम् ॥
athavā yoginām eva kule bhavati dhīmatām
etad dhi durlabhataraṃ loke janma yad īdṛśam
Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) is still speaking.
The verse
Or he comes to be in a family of wise yogins, and a birth of this kind is harder to obtain in the world.
नेपालीमा
अथवा ऊ ज्ञानी योगीहरूको कुलमा जन्मिन्छ। यस्तो जन्म संसारमा पाउन झनै गाह्रो छ।
Where it sits
Two births, and the second is the rarer. Either way the fallen man is born where the practice can start again. 6.43 says what he finds there that he already had.
Split: अथवा + योगिनाम् + एव + कुले + भवति + धीमताम् + एतत् + हि + दुर्लभतरम् + लोके + जन्म + यत् + ईदृशम्
athavā + yoginām + eva + kule + bhavati + dhīmatām + etat + hi + durlabhataram + loke + janma + yat + īdṛśam
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| देवनागरी | Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| अथवा | athavā | indeclinable | or else. |
| योगिनाम् | yoginām | genitive plural | of yogins. |
| एव | eva | indeclinable | the very. |
| कुले | kule | locative singular | in a family. |
| भवति | bhavati | present, 3rd singular | he comes to be. |
| धीमताम् | dhīmatām | genitive plural | of the wise. Agrees with yoginām (योगिनाम्). |
| एतत् | etat | nominative singular | this. |
| हि | hi | indeclinable | for. |
| दुर्लभतरम् | durlabhataram | nominative singular | harder to obtain. Comparative. |
| लोके | loke | locative singular | in the world. |
| जन्म | janma | nominative singular | a birth. |
| यत् | yat | nominative singular | which. |
| ईदृशम् | īdṛśam | nominative singular | of this kind. |
The phrases
athavā (अथवा) offers the other birth. योगिनाम् एव कुले धीमताम् भवति yoginām eva kule dhīmatām bhavati: he comes to be in a family of wise yogins.
एतत् हि दुर्लभतरम् लोके जन्म यत् ईदृशम् etat hi durlabhataram loke janma yat īdṛśam judges that birth. A birth of this kind is harder to obtain in the world. "This kind" is the yogins' house, set beside the prosperous house of 6.41.
etat hi (एतत् हि) is etaddhi (एतद्धि). यत् ईदृशम् yat īdṛśam is yadīdṛśam (यदीदृशम्).
Sanskrit in this line
--tara (तर) is the comparative suffix. durlabha (दुर्लभ) is "hard to obtain." durlabhataram (दुर्लभतरम्) is "harder to obtain." It agrees with janma (जन्म). etat hi (एतत् हि) is recited etaddhi (एतद्धि): final t (त्) before h (ह्) becomes d (द्), and the h (ह्) keeps a ध्-like hold, written द्ध ddh. yat (यत्) before the vowel of īdṛśam (ईदृशम्) is yad (यद्).
Say it back
The other family, and which birth is harder. If athavā (अथवा) is missed, the yogins' house replaces the first birth instead of standing beside it.