Nārada Bhakti Sūtras / The means (साधन) / 45
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the Nārada Bhakti Sūtras (नारद भक्ति सूत्रस्)
तरङ्गायिता अपीमे सङ्गात् समुद्रायन्ते taraṅgāyitā apīme saṅgāt samudrāyante
The line
Even these, once they are waves, become an ocean from company.
नेपालीमा
तरङ्ग भएका यी पनि सङ्गबाट समुद्र हुन्छन्।
Where it sits
Still in the means. Company does not stay small. The bad company of the two lines before is the saṅga (सङ्ग) in force.
Split: taraṅgāyitāḥ (तरङ्गायिताः) + api (अपि) + ime (इमे) + saṅgāt (सङ्गात्) + samudrāyante (समुद्रायन्ते)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| taraṅgāyitāḥ (तरङ्गायिताः) | nominative plural, masculine | turned into waves. Past participle of the denominative taraṅgāya (तरङ्गाय). |
| api (अपि) | indeclinable | even. Recited inside apīme (अपीमे). |
| ime (इमे) | nominative plural, masculine | these. Recited inside apīme (अपीमे). Agrees with taraṅgāyitāḥ (तरङ्गायिताः). |
| saṅgāt (सङ्गात्) | ablative singular, masculine | from company. |
| samudrāyante (समुद्रायन्ते) | present third person plural | they become an ocean. Denominative from samudra (समुद्र). |
The phrases
ime (इमे) and taraṅgāyitāḥ (तरङ्गायिताः) are the subject. api (अपि) includes even the small ones. saṅgāt (सङ्गात्) is the source. samudrāyante (समुद्रायन्ते) is the verb.
Sanskrit in this line
taraṅgāyitāḥ (तरङ्गायिताः) before a vowel drops the visarga, which is regular for āḥ (आः), so the print is taraṅgāyitā (तरङ्गायिता). api (अपि) plus ime (इमे) is apīme (अपीमे), i (इ) plus i (इ).
Say it back
What do the waves become, and from what?