Canonical Ref: VR 5.7.35
Metrical Form: अनुष्टुप्
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
इमानि मुखपद्मानि नियतं मत्तषट्पदाः । अम्बुजानीव फुल्लानि प्रार्थयन्ति पुनः पुनः ॥
Roman Transliteration (IAST)
imāni mukhapadmāni niyataṃ mattaṣaṭpadāḥ | ambujānīva phullāni prārthayanti punaḥ punaḥ ||
English Scholarly Translation
“These lotus-faces like to very lotuses themselves, ever the six-footed ones* seek once and again.” Thus thought with discrimination the graceful, mighty. monkey; and on account of their perfections, he confessed those countenances to be equal to water-sprung (lotuses). * Şatpadā—six-footed—a name of the black bee. "Salitodbhavas, water spiung—a name of the lotus.
Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)
Grammatical Parsing
इमानि
Lemma: इदम्
POS: pron
मुखपद्मानि
Lemma: मुख
POS: n
मुखपद्मानि
Lemma: पद्म
POS: mn
नियतं
Lemma: नियम्
POS: 1. Ā.
मत्तषट्पदाः
Lemma: मद्
POS: 3. P.
मत्तषट्पदाः
Lemma: षट्पद
POS: m
अम्बुजानीव
Lemma: अम्बुज
POS: mn
अम्बुजानीव
Lemma: इव
POS: ind
फुल्लानि
Lemma: फुल्ल
POS: adj
प्रार्थयन्ति
Lemma: प्रार्थय्
POS: Denom. Ā. • Verb: प्रार्थयन्ति
पुनः
Lemma: पुनर्
POS: ind
पुनः
Lemma: पुनर्
POS: ind
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam, VR 5.7.35. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.