Canonical Ref: MBh 12.114.8
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
ततः प्राह नदी गङ्गा वाक्यमुत्तरमर्थवत् । हेतुमद्ग्राहकं चैव सागरं सरितां पतिम् ॥
English Scholarly Translation
I desire, therefore, to hear what is your motive about it. Indeed, why is it that canes, are not washed down by any of you from the banks were they grow?-Thus addressed, the River Ganga replied, to Ocean, that Lord of all Rivers, in these words of great significance, fraught with reason, and, therefore, liked of all.
Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)
Grammatical Parsing
ततः
Lemma: ततस्
POS: ind
प्राह
Lemma: प्राह्
POS: 1. P. • Verb: प्राह
नदी
Lemma: नदी
POS: f
गङ्गा
Lemma: गङ्गा
POS: f
वाक्यम्
Lemma: वाक्य
POS: n
उत्तरम्
Lemma: उत्तर
POS: n
अर्थवत्
Lemma: अर्थवत्
POS: adj
हेतुमद्
Lemma: हेतुमत्
POS: adj
ग्राहकं
Lemma: ग्राहक
POS: adj
चैव
Lemma: च
POS: ind
चैव
Lemma: एव
POS: ind
सागरं
Lemma: सागर
POS: m
सरितां
Lemma: सरित्
POS: f
पतिम्
Lemma: पति
POS: m
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Mahābhārata, MBh 12.114.8. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.