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Ch. 1489 MBh 1489.35
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MBh • Parva 12 • Adhyāya 161: Śāntiparva Adhyāya 161

MBh 12.161.35

Canonical Ref: MBh 12.161.35
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
नवनीतं यथा दध्नस्तथा कामोऽर्थधर्मतः । श्रेयस्तैलं च पिण्याकाद्घृतं श्रेय उदश्वितः ॥
English Scholarly Translation
As butter is the essence of curds, so is Desire the essence of Profit and Virtue. Oil is better than oil-seeds. Clarified butter is better than sour milk.

Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)

Grammatical Parsing
नवनीतं
Lemma: नवनीत
POS: n
यथा
Lemma: यथा
POS: ind
दध्नस्तथा
Lemma: दधि
POS: n
दध्नस्तथा
Lemma: तथा
POS: ind
कामो
Lemma: काम
POS: m
ऽर्थधर्मतः
Lemma: अर्थ
POS: mn
ऽर्थधर्मतः
Lemma: धर्म
POS: mn
श्रेयस्तैलं
Lemma: श्रेयस्
POS: adj
श्रेयस्तैलं
Lemma: तैल
POS: n
च
Lemma: च
POS: ind
पिण्याकाद्
Lemma: पिण्याक
POS: mn
धृतं
Lemma: धृ
POS: 4. P.
श्रेय
Lemma: श्रेयस्
POS: adj
उदश्वितः
Lemma: उदश्वित्
POS: n
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Mahābhārata, MBh 12.161.35. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.
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