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Ch. 1629 MBh 1629.17
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MBh • Parva 12 • Adhyāya 301: Śāntiparva Adhyāya 301

MBh 12.301.17

Canonical Ref: MBh 12.301.17
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
यथा दीपसहस्राणि दीपान्मर्त्याः प्रकुर्वते । प्रकृतिस्तथा विकुरुते पुरुषस्य गुणान्बहून् ॥
English Scholarly Translation
As men can light thousands of lamps from but a single lamp, similarly Nature, by change, multiplies into thousands of existent objects the (three) qualities of Purusha.

Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)

Grammatical Parsing
यथा
Lemma: यथा
POS: ind
दीपसहस्राणि
Lemma: दीप
POS: m
दीपसहस्राणि
Lemma: सहस्र
POS: mn
दीपान्मर्त्याः
Lemma: दीप
POS: m
दीपान्मर्त्याः
Lemma: मर्त्य
POS: m
प्रकुर्वते
Lemma: प्रकृ
POS: 8. Ā. • Verb: प्रकुर्वते
प्रकृतिस्तथा
Lemma: प्रकृति
POS: f
प्रकृतिस्तथा
Lemma: तथा
POS: ind
विकुरुते
Lemma: विकृ
POS: 5. P. • Verb: विकुरुते
पुरुषस्य
Lemma: पुरुष
POS: m
गुणान्
Lemma: गुण
POS: mn
बहून्
Lemma: बहु
POS: adj
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Mahābhārata, MBh 12.301.17. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.
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