Canonical Ref: MBh 12.321.9
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
नारायणो हि विश्वात्मा चतुर्मूर्तिः सनातनः । धर्मात्मजः संबभूव पितैवं मेऽभ्यभाषत ॥
English Scholarly Translation
I heard it from my father that in the golden age, O king, during the epoch of the Self-create Manu, the eternal Narayana, the Soul of the universe, was born as the son of Dharma in a quadrupie form, viz., as Nara, Narayana, Hari, and the Self-create Krishna.
Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)
Grammatical Parsing
नारायणो
Lemma: नारायण
POS: m
हि
Lemma: हि
POS: ind
विश्वात्मा
Lemma: विश्वात्मन्
POS: m
चतुर्मूर्तिः
Lemma: चतुर्
POS: nr
चतुर्मूर्तिः
Lemma: मूर्ति
POS: f
सनातनः
Lemma: सनातन
POS: adj
धर्मात्मजः
Lemma: धर्म
POS: mn
धर्मात्मजः
Lemma: आत्मज
POS: m
संबभूव
Lemma: सम्भू
POS: 1. Ā. • Verb: संबभूव
पितैवं
Lemma: पितृ
POS: m
पितैवं
Lemma: एवम्
POS: ind
मे
Lemma: मद्
POS: pron
ऽभ्यभाषत
Lemma: अभिभाष्
POS: 1. P. • Verb: अभ्यभाषत
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Mahābhārata, MBh 12.321.9. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.