Canonical Ref: MBh 13.47.5
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
चतस्रो विहिता भार्या ब्राह्मणस्य पितामह । ब्राह्मणी क्षत्रिया वैश्या शूद्रा च रतिमिच्छतः ॥
English Scholarly Translation
It has been laid down, O grandfather that a Brahmana can take four wives, viz., one who belongs to his own caste, one who is a Kshatriya, one who is a Vaishya, and one who is a Shudra, if the Brahmana wishes to satisfy the desire of sexual intercourse.
Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)
Grammatical Parsing
चतस्रो
Lemma: चतुर्
POS: nr
विहिता
Lemma: विधा
POS: 3. Ā.
भार्या
Lemma: भार्या
POS: f
ब्राह्मणस्य
Lemma: ब्राह्मण
POS: m
पितामह
Lemma: पितामह
POS: m
ब्राह्मणः
Lemma: ब्राह्मण
POS: m
क्षत्रियश्चैव
Lemma: क्षत्रिय
POS: m
क्षत्रियश्चैव
Lemma: च
POS: ind
क्षत्रियश्चैव
Lemma: एव
POS: ind
वैश्यः
Lemma: वैश्य
POS: m
शूद्रस्तथैव
Lemma: शूद्र
POS: m
शूद्रस्तथैव
Lemma: तथा
POS: ind
शूद्रस्तथैव
Lemma: एव
POS: ind
च
Lemma: च
POS: ind
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Mahābhārata, MBh 13.47.5. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.