Canonical Ref: VR 7.21.4
Metrical Form: अनुष्टुप्
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
कच्चित्क्षेमं नु देवर्षे कच्चिद्धर्मो न नश्यति । किमागमनकृत्यं ते देवगन्धर्वसेवित ॥
Roman Transliteration (IAST)
kaccitkṣemaṃ nu devarṣe kacciddharmo na naśyati | kimāgamanakṛtyaṃ te devagandharvasevita ||
English Scholarly Translation
'O Devarsi, is it well with you? And does virtue deteriorate.'* And, why, O you honoured of deities, and Gandharvas, do you come?' *The Original has: "Do not virtue wane." This in English would imply the very reverse what Nārada intends to say. He says: 'Do religion deteriorate?' i.e. 'I hope, religion does not deteriorate.' This is an idiom and natural usage accounts for it, although that usage must in the nature of things be based on a subtle ground of season.
Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)
Grammatical Parsing
कच्चित्
Lemma: कश्चित्
POS: pron
क्षेमं
Lemma: क्षेम
POS: mn
नु
Lemma: नु
POS: ind
देवर्षे
Lemma: देव
POS: m
देवर्षे
Lemma: ऋषि
POS: m
कच्चिद्
Lemma: कश्चित्
POS: pron
धर्मो
Lemma: धर्म
POS: mn
न
Lemma: न
POS: ind
नश्यति
Lemma: नश्
POS: 1. P. • Verb: नश्यति
किम्
Lemma: क
POS: pron
आगमनकृत्यं
Lemma: आगमन
POS: n
आगमनकृत्यं
Lemma: कृत्य
POS: n
ते
Lemma: त्वद्
POS: pron
देवगन्धर्वसेवित
Lemma: देव
POS: m
देवगन्धर्वसेवित
Lemma: गन्धर्व
POS: m
देवगन्धर्वसेवित
Lemma: सेव्
POS: 4. P.
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam, VR 7.21.4. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.