Canonical Ref: VR 1.37.12
Metrical Form: अनुष्टुप्
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
एको वंशकरो वास्तु बहवो वा महाबलाः । कीर्तिमन्तो महोत्साहाः का वा कं वरमिच्छति ॥
Roman Transliteration (IAST)
eko vaṃśakaro vāstu bahavo vā mahābalāḥ | kīrtimanto mahotsāhāḥ kā vā kaṃ varamicchati ||
English Scholarly Translation
Hearing this, the highly pious Bhỉgu said these pregnant words, 'Do you unfold your minds. Who wishes for what boon, between a single perpetuator of the line, and innumerable sons, possessed of mighty strength, and furnished with fame, and endowed with high spirits?'
Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)
Grammatical Parsing
एको
Lemma: एक
POS: pron
वंशकरो
Lemma: वंश
POS: m
वंशकरो
Lemma: कर
POS: adj
वास्तु
Lemma: वा
POS: ind
वास्तु
Lemma: अस्
POS: 2. P. • Verb: अस्तु
बहवो
Lemma: बहु
POS: adj
वा
Lemma: वा
POS: ind
महाबलाः
Lemma: महत्
POS: adj
महाबलाः
Lemma: बल
POS: mn
कीर्तिमन्तो
Lemma: कीर्तिमत्
POS: adj
महोत्साहाः
Lemma: महत्
POS: adj
महोत्साहाः
Lemma: उत्साह
POS: m
का
Lemma: क
POS: pron
वा
Lemma: वा
POS: ind
कं
Lemma: क
POS: pron
वरम्
Lemma: वर
POS: mn
इच्छति
Lemma: इष्
POS: 1. P. • Verb: इच्छति
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam, VR 1.37.12. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.