महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-12, chapter-179, verse-11

एषा गौः परलोकस्थं तारयिष्यति मामिति ।
यो दत्त्वा म्रियते जन्तुः सा गौः कं तारयिष्यति ॥११॥

11. eṣā gauḥ paralokasthaṁ tārayiṣyati māmiti ,
yo dattvā mriyate jantuḥ sā gauḥ kaṁ tārayiṣyati.

11. eṣā gauḥ paralokasthaṃ tārayiṣyati mām iti yaḥ
dattvā mriyate jantuḥ sā gauḥ kam tārayiṣyati

11. yaḥ jantuḥ eṣā gauḥ paralokasthaṃ mām tārayiṣyati
iti dattvā mriyate sā gauḥ kam tārayiṣyati

11. A person gives a cow, thinking, "This cow will save me when I am in the afterlife." If that giver then dies, whom will that cow save?

Words meanings summery:

• एषा (eṣā) - this (feminine)

• गौः (gauḥ) - cow (as an object of ritual donation) (cow, bull, earth, light)

• परलोकस्थं (paralokasthaṁ) - (me) situated in the afterlife (situated in the other world, for the other world)

• तारयिष्यति (tārayiṣyati) - will save, will cause to cross over

• माम् (mām) - me

• इति (iti) - introducing a thought or statement (thus, in this manner, marking quotation)

• यः (yaḥ) - who, which (masculine singular)

• दत्त्वा (dattvā) - having given

• म्रियते (mriyate) - dies, passes away

• जन्तुः (jantuḥ) - person, individual (creature, living being, person)

• सा (sā) - that (feminine)

• गौः (gauḥ) - cow (as an object of ritual donation) (cow, bull, earth, light)

• कम् (kam) - whom (whom, what)

• तारयिष्यति (tārayiṣyati) - will save, will cause to cross over

Words meanings and morphology

एषा (eṣā) - this (feminine)

(pronoun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of etad

etad - this, that

गौः (gauḥ) - cow (as an object of ritual donation) (cow, bull, earth, light)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of go

go - cow, bull, earth, light, ray, speech, heaven

परलोकस्थं (paralokasthaṁ) - (me) situated in the afterlife (situated in the other world, for the other world)

(adjective)

Accusative, masculine, singular of paralokastha

paralokastha - situated in the other world, related to the other world

Compound type : tatpurusha (paraloka+stha)

• paraloka – the other world, afterlife, heaven
  noun (masculine)
• stha – standing, staying, situated
  adjective
  From root sthā (to stand)
  Root: sthā (class 1)

Note: Qualifies 'mām'

तारयिष्यति (tārayiṣyati) - will save, will cause to cross over

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, future (lṛṭ) of tārayati

causative

Causative form of root tṛ

Root: tṛ (class 1)

माम् (mām) - me

(pronoun)

Accusative, singular of asmad

asmad - I, me, we, us

इति (iti) - introducing a thought or statement (thus, in this manner, marking quotation)

(indeclinable)

यः (yaḥ) - who, which (masculine singular)

(pronoun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of yad

yad - who, which, what

Note: Refers to 'jantuḥ'

दत्त्वा (dattvā) - having given

(indeclinable)

absolutive/gerund

Absolutive (indeclinable participle) from root dā

Root: dā (class 3)

म्रियते (mriyate) - dies, passes away

(verb)

3rd person , singular, middle, present (laṭ) of mṛ

Root: mṛ (class 6)

जन्तुः (jantuḥ) - person, individual (creature, living being, person)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of jantu

jantu - creature, living being, person, offspring

Note: Subject of 'mriyate' and referred to by 'yaḥ'

सा (sā) - that (feminine)

(pronoun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of tad

tad - that, he, she, it

Note: Refers to 'gauḥ'

गौः (gauḥ) - cow (as an object of ritual donation) (cow, bull, earth, light)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of go

go - cow, bull, earth, light, ray, speech, heaven

कम् (kam) - whom (whom, what)

(pronoun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of kim

kim - who, what, which, why

तारयिष्यति (tārayiṣyati) - will save, will cause to cross over

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, future (lṛṭ) of tārayati

causative

Causative form of root tṛ

Root: tṛ (class 1)