2.33

Tattvārtha Sūtra / 2. Jīva (जीव) / 2.33

जरायुजाण्डजपोतानां गर्भः

jarāyujāṇḍajapotānāṃ garbhaḥ

The line

Of jarāyujāṇḍajapota (जरायुजाण्डजपोत), the womb.

Where it sits

In Tattvārtha (तत्त्वार्थ) Sūtra (सूत्र), adhyāya (अध्याय) 2. Jīva (जीव). The soul, its states, and the kinds of beings. The line is short. sacittaśītasaṃvṛtāh (सचित्तशीतसंवृताह्) from 2.32 is still in force. A sūtra (सूत्र) leaves a word out when the line before still holds it. That carrying is anuvṛtti (अनुवृत्ति).

Split: jarāyujāṇḍajapotānāṃ (जरायुजाण्डजपोतानां) + garbhaḥ (गर्भः)

Sanskrit, in depth

The words

WordGrammarSense
jarāyujāṇḍajapotānāṃ (जरायुजाण्डजपोतानां)genitive pluraljarāyujāṇḍajapota (जरायुजाण्डजपोत)
garbhaḥ (गर्भः)nominative singular, masculinethe womb

The phrases

jarāyujāṇḍajapotānāṃ (जरायुजाण्डजपोतानां) is jarāyujāṇḍajapota (जरायुजाण्डजपोत). It stands as genitive plural.

garbhaḥ (गर्भः) is the womb. It stands as nominative singular, masculine.

Sanskrit in this line

jarāyujāṇḍajapotānāṃ (जरायुजाण्डजपोतानां) is genitive plural. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.

Say it back

Cover the English. Gloss jarāyujāṇḍajapotānāṃ (जरायुजाण्डजपोतानां) and garbhaḥ (गर्भः).

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2.34. Of devanāraka (देवनारक), spontaneous birth.