Canonical Ref: MBh 12.308.93
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
वक्तव्ये तु यदा वक्ता श्रोतारमवमन्यते । स्वार्थमाह परार्थं वा तदा वाक्यं न रोहति ॥
English Scholarly Translation
When about what is to be said, the speaker does not care for the understanding of the hearer by uttering words whose meaning is understood by himself, then, however good those words may be, they cannot be comprehended by the hearer.
Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)
Grammatical Parsing
वक्तव्ये
Lemma: वच्
POS: 2. P.
तु
Lemma: तु
POS: ind
यदा
Lemma: यदा
POS: ind
वक्ता
Lemma: वक्तृ
POS: adj
श्रोतारम्
Lemma: श्रोतृ
POS: adj
अवमन्यते
Lemma: अवमन्
POS: 4. P. • Verb: अवमन्यते
स्वार्थम्
Lemma: स्व
POS: adj
स्वार्थम्
Lemma: अर्थ
POS: mn
आह
Lemma: अह्
POS: 1. P. • Verb: आह
परार्थं
Lemma: पर
POS: pron
परार्थं
Lemma: अर्थ
POS: mn
वा
Lemma: वा
POS: ind
तदा
Lemma: तदा
POS: ind
वाक्यं
Lemma: वाक्य
POS: n
न
Lemma: न
POS: ind
रोहति
Lemma: रुह्
POS: 6. Ā. • Verb: रोहति
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Mahābhārata, MBh 12.308.93. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.