2.4
अविद्या क्षेत्रमुत्तरेषां प्रसुप्ततनुविच्छिन्नोदाराणाम्
avidyā kṣetram uttareṣāṃ prasupta-tanu-vicchinnodārāṇām
The line
Ignorance is the field of the others, whether they are dormant, thin, interrupted, or active.
नेपालीमा
अविद्या अरूको खेत हो, ती निदाएका, पातला, बीचमा टुटेका वा सक्रिय जे भए पनि।
Where it sits
2.3 listed five. This line says the last four live in the first. Whatever state an affliction is in, the ground under it is ignorance. 2.5 will say what ignorance actually is.
Split: avidyā (अविद्या) + kṣetram (क्षेत्रम्) + uttareṣām (उत्तरेषाम्) + prasupta (प्रसुप्त) + tanu (तनु) + vicchinna (विच्छिन्न) + udārāṇām (उदाराणाम्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| avidyā (अविद्या) | nominative singular, feminine | ignorance. The first of the five. |
| kṣetram (क्षेत्रम्) | nominative singular, neuter | the field. Where the others grow. |
| uttareṣām (उत्तरेषाम्) | genitive plural | of the later ones. Of the four that follow ignorance. |
| prasupta (प्रसुप्त) | stem | asleep, dormant. |
| tanu (तनु) | stem | thin. |
| vicchinna (विच्छिन्न) | stem | cut, interrupted. |
| udārāṇām (उदाराणाम्) | genitive plural of udāra (उदार) | of the active ones. The ending covers all four conditions. |
The phrases
avidyā kṣetram (अविद्या क्षेत्रम्) is “ignorance is the field,” two nominatives, different genders, the pattern of 1.7. uttareṣām (उत्तरेषाम्) is “of those that come after.”
The four conditions share one genitive plural on udāra (उदार). vicchinna (विच्छिन्न) + udāra (उदार) is a (अ) + u (उ) = o (ओ), recited vicchinnodāra (विच्छिन्नोदार). Dormant, thin, interrupted, or fully active: ignorance is still the field.
Sanskrit in this line
The new sandhi is a (अ) + u (उ) = o (ओ). vicchinna (विच्छिन्न) + udāra (उदार) is vicchinnodāra (विच्छिन्नोदार). You have had ā (आ) + u (उ) = o (ओ) in muditopekṣā (मुदितोपेक्षा). Short a (अ) before u (उ) does the same: the two vowels become o (ओ).
Say it back
Say the four conditions in order, then the field they stand in: avidyā (अविद्या).