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

गौश्च प्रतिग्रहीता च दाता चैव समं यदा ।
इहैव विलयं यान्ति कुतस्तेषां समागमः ॥१२॥

12. gauśca pratigrahītā ca dātā caiva samaṁ yadā ,
ihaiva vilayaṁ yānti kutasteṣāṁ samāgamaḥ.

12. gauḥ ca pratigrahītā ca dātā ca eva samam yadā
iha eva vilayam yānti kutaḥ teṣām samāgamaḥ

12. yadā gauḥ ca pratigrahītā ca dātā ca eva samam
iha eva vilayam yānti teṣām samāgamaḥ kutaḥ

12. When the cow, the recipient, and the giver all perish right here in this world, how can there be a reunion for them (in the afterlife)?

Words meanings summery:

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

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• प्रतिग्रहीता (pratigrahītā) - receiver, recipient

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• दाता (dātā) - giver, donor

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• एव (eva) - indeed (indeed, only, just)

• समम् (samam) - together, simultaneously (together, equally)

• यदा (yadā) - when

• इह (iha) - in this mortal world (here, in this world)

• एव (eva) - right here, exclusively in this world (indeed, only, just)

• विलयम् (vilayam) - demise, passing away (dissolution, destruction, absorption)

• यान्ति (yānti) - they meet (their demise) (they go, they attain)

• कुतः (kutaḥ) - how (is it possible) (from where, whence, how)

• तेषाम् (teṣām) - of them (the cow, receiver, giver) (of them, their)

• समागमः (samāgamaḥ) - reunion (in the afterlife) (meeting, reunion, confluence)

Words meanings and morphology

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

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

Note: Conjunction

प्रतिग्रहीता (pratigrahītā) - receiver, recipient

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of pratigrahītṛ

pratigrahītṛ - receiver, acceptor, recipient

agent noun

Agent noun from prati-grah (to receive)

Prefix: prati

Root: grah (class 9)

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

Note: Conjunction

दाता (dātā) - giver, donor

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of dātṛ

dātṛ - giver, donor, bestower

agent noun

Agent noun from root dā (to give)

Root: dā (class 3)

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

Note: Conjunction

एव (eva) - indeed (indeed, only, just)

(indeclinable)

Note: Emphatic particle

समम् (samam) - together, simultaneously (together, equally)

(indeclinable)

यदा (yadā) - when

(indeclinable)

Note: Temporal conjunction

इह (iha) - in this mortal world (here, in this world)

(indeclinable)

एव (eva) - right here, exclusively in this world (indeed, only, just)

(indeclinable)

Note: Emphatic particle

विलयम् (vilayam) - demise, passing away (dissolution, destruction, absorption)

(noun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of vilaya

vilaya - dissolution, melting away, destruction, disappearance

From vi-lī (to dissolve)

Prefix: vi

Root: lī (class 4)

Note: Object of 'yānti'

यान्ति (yānti) - they meet (their demise) (they go, they attain)

(verb)

3rd person , plural, active, present (laṭ) of yā

Root: yā (class 2)

Note: Subject is 'gauḥ, pratigrahītā, dātā'

कुतः (kutaḥ) - how (is it possible) (from where, whence, how)

(indeclinable)

Note: Interrogative adverb

तेषाम् (teṣām) - of them (the cow, receiver, giver) (of them, their)

(pronoun)

Genitive, masculine, plural of tad

tad - that, he, she, it

Note: Refers to the three mentioned entities.

समागमः (samāgamaḥ) - reunion (in the afterlife) (meeting, reunion, confluence)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of samāgama

samāgama - coming together, meeting, union, confluence

From sam-ā-gam (to come together)

Prefixes: sam+ā

Root: gam (class 1)

Note: Subject of the implicit verb 'is' or 'occurs'