11.10
अनेकवक्त्रनयनमनेकाद्भुतदर्शनम् ।
अनेकदिव्याभरणं दिव्यानेकोद्यतायुधम् ॥
anekavaktranayanam anekādbhutadarśanam
anekadivyābharaṇaṃ divyānekodyatāyudham
Sañjaya (सञ्जय) is still speaking, to Dhṛtarāṣṭra (धृतराष्ट्र). There is no new verb. These are accusatives of the form shown in 11.9.
The verse
It had many mouths and eyes, many wondrous sights, many divine ornaments, and many divine weapons raised.
नेपालीमा
त्यसमा धेरै मुख र आँखा थिए, धेरै आश्चर्य दृश्य थिए, धेरै दिव्य आभूषण थिए, र धेरै दिव्य हतियार उठाइएका थिए।
Where it sits
Sañjaya (सञ्जय) is still inside the object of दर्शयाम् आस darśayām āsa. The sentence of 11.9 has not closed. 11.11 will finish the description and name the god.
Split: अनेक-वक्त्र-नयनम् + अनेक-अद्भुत-दर्शनम् + अनेक-दिव्य-आभरणम् + दिव्य-अनेक-उद्यत-आयुधम्
aneka-vaktra-nayanam + aneka-adbhuta-darśanam + aneka-divya-ābharaṇam + divya-aneka-udyata-āyudham
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| देवनागरी | Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| अनेक-वक्त्र-नयनम् | aneka-vaktra-nayanam | accusative singular neuter | having many mouths and eyes. vaktra (वक्त्र) is a mouth. nayana (नयन) is an eye. |
| अनेक-अद्भुत-दर्शनम् | aneka-adbhuta-darśanam | accusative singular neuter | of many wondrous sights. adbhuta (अद्भुत) is a wonder. darśana (दर्शन) is a sight. |
| अनेक-दिव्य-आभरणम् | aneka-divya-ābharaṇam | accusative singular neuter | wearing many divine ornaments. ābharaṇa (आभरण) is an ornament. |
| दिव्य-अनेक-उद्यत-आयुधम् | divya-aneka-udyata-āyudham | accusative singular neuter | with many divine weapons raised. udyata (उद्यत) is raised, ready. āyudha (आयुध) is a weapon. |
The phrases
अनेक-वक्त्र-नयनम् अनेक-अद्भुत-दर्शनम् aneka-vaktra-nayanam aneka-adbhuta-darśanam is the face of the form, if a face is the word. Many mouths, many eyes, many wonders to look at.
अनेक-दिव्य-आभरणम् दिव्य-अनेक-उद्यत-आयुधम् aneka-divya-ābharaṇam divya-aneka-udyata-āyudham is what it wears and what it holds. Divine ornaments, and divine weapons lifted.
Sanskrit in this line
Each of these is a bahuvrīhi, a compound that describes something it does not name. The last member is not the thing itself. aneka-vaktra-nayanam (अनेक-वक्त्र-नयनम्) does not mean "many eyes." It means "having many mouths and eyes," and it agrees with rūpam (रूपम्), the form. अनेक + अद्भुत aneka + adbhuta is anekādbhuta (अनेकाद्भुत): a (अ) plus a (अ) is ā (आ).
Say it back
Mouths, eyes, ornaments, weapons. If the weapons are at rest, udyata (उद्यत) was dropped. They are raised.