महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-12, chapter-192, verse-23

धर्म उवाच ।
अवश्यं भोः शरीरं ते त्यक्तव्यं मुनिपुंगव ।
स्वर्ग आरोह्यतां विप्र किं वा ते रोचतेऽनघ ॥२३॥

23. dharma uvāca ,
avaśyaṁ bhoḥ śarīraṁ te tyaktavyaṁ munipuṁgava ,
svarga ārohyatāṁ vipra kiṁ vā te rocate'nagha.

23. dharma uvāca avaśyaṃ bhoḥ śarīraṃ te tyaktavyaṃ
munipuṅgava svarga ārohyatāṃ vipra kiṃ vā te rocate anagha

23. dharma uvāca bhoḥ munipuṅgava te śarīram avaśyaṃ
tyaktavyam vipra svarga ārohyatām anagha kim vā te rocate

23. Dharma said: 'O sir, your body must certainly be abandoned, O chief among sages. Let heaven be ascended (by you), O Brahmin, or what else pleases you, O sinless one?'

Words meanings summery:

• धर्म (dharma) - Dharma (personified), duty, righteousness

• उवाच (uvāca) - said, spoke

• अवश्यं (avaśyaṁ) - certainly, necessarily

• भोः (bhoḥ) - O sir, hey (vocative particle)

• शरीरं (śarīraṁ) - body

• ते (te) - your, to you

• त्यक्तव्यं (tyaktavyaṁ) - to be abandoned, must be given up

• मुनिपुङ्गव (munipuṅgava) - O chief among sages, O best of sages

• स्वर्ग (svarga) - heaven, heavenly abode

• आरोह्यतां (ārohyatāṁ) - let it be ascended, let one ascend

• विप्र (vipra) - O Brahmin, O inspired one

• किं (kiṁ) - what

• वा (vā) - or

• ते (te) - to you, your

• रोचते (rocate) - pleases, is agreeable to

• अनघ (anagha) - O sinless one, O faultless one

Words meanings and morphology

धर्म (dharma) - Dharma (personified), duty, righteousness

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of dharma

dharma - constitution, natural law, intrinsic nature, duty, righteousness, moral law

Root: dhṛ (class 1)

उवाच (uvāca) - said, spoke

(verb)

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

Root: vac (class 2)

अवश्यं (avaśyaṁ) - certainly, necessarily

(indeclinable)

भोः (bhoḥ) - O sir, hey (vocative particle)

(indeclinable)

शरीरं (śarīraṁ) - body

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of śarīra

śarīra - body, corporeal frame

ते (te) - your, to you

(pronoun)

Genitive, singular of yuṣmad

yuṣmad - you

त्यक्तव्यं (tyaktavyaṁ) - to be abandoned, must be given up

(adjective)

Nominative, neuter, singular of tyaktavya

tyaktavya - to be abandoned, to be given up, fit to be abandoned

Gerundive (kṛtya)

Root: tyaj (class 1)

मुनिपुङ्गव (munipuṅgava) - O chief among sages, O best of sages

(noun)

Vocative, masculine, singular of munipuṅgava

munipuṅgava - best of sages, chief of hermits

Compound type : tatpurusha (muni+puṅgava)

• muni – sage, ascetic
  noun (masculine)
• puṅgava – bull, eminent, chief, best
  noun (masculine)

स्वर्ग (svarga) - heaven, heavenly abode

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of svarga

svarga - heaven, celestial world, paradise

Note: Subject of passive construction 'ārohyatām'.

आरोह्यतां (ārohyatāṁ) - let it be ascended, let one ascend

(verb)

3rd person , singular, passive, imperative (loṭ) of āruh

Prefix: ā

Root: ruh (class 1)

विप्र (vipra) - O Brahmin, O inspired one

(noun)

Vocative, masculine, singular of vipra

vipra - Brahmin, inspired, wise, a poet, a priest

किं (kiṁ) - what

(pronoun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of kim

kim - who, what, which (interrogative pronoun)

वा (vā) - or

(indeclinable)

ते (te) - to you, your

(pronoun)

Dative, singular of yuṣmad

yuṣmad - you

Note: Used with 'rocate' to mean 'pleasing to you'.

रोचते (rocate) - pleases, is agreeable to

(verb)

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

Root: ruc (class 1)

अनघ (anagha) - O sinless one, O faultless one

(adjective)

Vocative, masculine, singular of anagha

anagha - sinless, faultless, innocent

Compound type : bahuvrihi (a+agha)

• a – not, non-
  indeclinable
• agha – sin, evil, fault, suffering
  noun (neuter)