महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-12, chapter-11, verse-9

शकुनिरुवाच ।
यदि मां नाभिशङ्कध्वं विभज्यात्मानमात्मना ।
ततोऽहं वः प्रवक्ष्यामि याथातथ्यं हितं वचः ॥९॥

9. śakuniruvāca ,
yadi māṁ nābhiśaṅkadhvaṁ vibhajyātmānamātmanā ,
tato'haṁ vaḥ pravakṣyāmi yāthātathyaṁ hitaṁ vacaḥ.

9. śakuniḥ uvāca yadi mām na abhiśaṅkadhvam vibhajya ātmānam
ātmanā tataḥ aham vaḥ pravakṣyāmi yāthātathyam hitam vacaḥ

9. śakuniḥ uvāca yadi mām na abhiśaṅkadhvam ca vibhajya ātmānam ātmanā,
tataḥ aham vaḥ yāthātathyam hitam vacaḥ pravakṣyāmi

9. Śakuni said: 'If you do not doubt me, discerning the self (ātman) through your own self (ātman), then I will speak to you beneficial words as they truly are.'

Words meanings summery:

• शकुनिः (śakuniḥ) - Śakuni, a character in the Mahabharata (Śakuni (proper noun), a bird, a kind of bird)

• उवाच (uvāca) - said, spoke

• यदि (yadi) - if

• माम् (mām) - me

• न (na) - not, no

• अभिशङ्कध्वम् (abhiśaṅkadhvam) - you (plural) doubt, you suspect

• विभज्य (vibhajya) - having discerned (having divided, having distinguished, having discerned)

• आत्मानम् (ātmānam) - the individual self (ātman) (the self, the soul, the essence)

• आत्मना (ātmanā) - through your own self (ātman) / insight (by the self, by the soul, by oneself)

• ततः (tataḥ) - then (then, therefore, from that)

• अहम् (aham) - I

• वः (vaḥ) - to you (plural) (to you (plural), your)

• प्रवक्ष्यामि (pravakṣyāmi) - I will speak, I will tell

• याथातथ्यम् (yāthātathyam) - the truth as it is (truth, reality, as it truly is)

• हितम् (hitam) - beneficial, good, advantageous

• वचः (vacaḥ) - words (word, speech, saying)

Words meanings and morphology

शकुनिः (śakuniḥ) - Śakuni, a character in the Mahabharata (Śakuni (proper noun), a bird, a kind of bird)

(proper noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of śakuni

śakuni - a bird, a kind of bird; proper name of Duryodhana's maternal uncle

उवाच (uvāca) - said, spoke

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, perfect (lit) of vac

Perfect Active

from √vac (class 2) with reduplication and vṛddhi

Root: vac (class 2)

यदि (yadi) - if

(indeclinable)

माम् (mām) - me

(pronoun)

Accusative, singular of asmad

asmad - I, me

न (na) - not, no

(indeclinable)

अभिशङ्कध्वम् (abhiśaṅkadhvam) - you (plural) doubt, you suspect

(verb)

2nd person , plural, middle, imperative (loṭ) of abhiśaṅk

Imperative Middle

from √śaṅk (class 1) with prefix abhi-, 2nd person plural

Prefix: abhi

Root: śaṅk (class 1)

विभज्य (vibhajya) - having discerned (having divided, having distinguished, having discerned)

(indeclinable)

absolutive (gerund)

from √bhaj (class 1/7) with prefix vi-

Prefix: vi

Root: bhaj (class 1)

Note: Absolutive modifying the implicit subject 'you'.

आत्मानम् (ātmānam) - the individual self (ātman) (the self, the soul, the essence)

(noun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of ātman

ātman - self, soul, essence, individual soul (ātman), supreme soul

Note: Object of vibhajya.

आत्मना (ātmanā) - through your own self (ātman) / insight (by the self, by the soul, by oneself)

(noun)

Instrumental, masculine, singular of ātman

ātman - self, soul, essence, individual soul (ātman), supreme soul

Note: Instrument of vibhajya.

ततः (tataḥ) - then (then, therefore, from that)

(indeclinable)

Note: Corresponds to yadi.

अहम् (aham) - I

(pronoun)

Nominative, singular of asmad

asmad - I, me

वः (vaḥ) - to you (plural) (to you (plural), your)

(pronoun)

Dative, plural of yuṣmad

yuṣmad - you (singular/plural)

Note: Dative of recipient with 'pravakṣyāmi'.

प्रवक्ष्यामि (pravakṣyāmi) - I will speak, I will tell

(verb)

1st person , singular, active, future (lṛṭ) of pravac

Future Active

from √vac (class 2) with prefix pra-

Prefix: pra

Root: vac (class 2)

याथातथ्यम् (yāthātathyam) - the truth as it is (truth, reality, as it truly is)

(noun)

Accusative, neuter, singular of yāthātathya

yāthātathya - reality, truth, as it is, fact

from yathātatha 'as it is' with -ya suffix

Note: Object of pravakṣyāmi.

हितम् (hitam) - beneficial, good, advantageous

(adjective)

Accusative, neuter, singular of hita

hita - beneficial, good, advantageous, suitable; welfare, benefit

Past Passive Participle

from √dhā 'to place, to do' in sense of 'to be fit, proper'

Root: dhā (class 3)

Note: Adjective modifying vacaḥ.

वचः (vacaḥ) - words (word, speech, saying)

(noun)

Accusative, neuter, singular of vacas

vacas - word, speech, saying, declaration

Note: Object of pravakṣyāmi.