महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-12, chapter-246, verse-3

संमोहचिन्ताविटपः शोकशाखो भयंकरः ।
मोहनीभिः पिपासाभिर्लताभिः परिवेष्टितः ॥३॥

3. saṁmohacintāviṭapaḥ śokaśākho bhayaṁkaraḥ ,
mohanībhiḥ pipāsābhirlatābhiḥ pariveṣṭitaḥ.

3. saṃmohacintāviṭapaḥ śokaśākhaḥ bhayaṅkaraḥ
mohanībhiḥ pipāsābhiḥ latābhiḥ pariveṣṭitaḥ

3. saṃmohacintāviṭapaḥ śokaśākhaḥ bhayaṅkaraḥ
mohanībhiḥ pipāsābhiḥ latābhiḥ pariveṣṭitaḥ

3. Its branches are deep delusion (moha) and anxiety, and its smaller branches are sorrow, making it terrifying. It is enveloped by alluring desires (pipāsā) like creepers.

Words meanings summery:

• संमोहचिन्ताविटपः (saṁmohacintāviṭapaḥ) - its main shoots are made of confusion and worry (having deep delusion and anxiety as branches)

• शोकशाखः (śokaśākhaḥ) - its smaller branches are manifestations of grief (having sorrow as branches)

• भयङ्करः (bhayaṅkaraḥ) - causing fear and dread (terrifying, dreadful, fearful)

• मोहनीभिः (mohanībhiḥ) - by intoxicating or misleading desires (by deluding, by enchanting, by infatuating (feminine plural instrumental))

• पिपासाभिः (pipāsābhiḥ) - by intense, insatiable desires (by desires, by thirsts)

• लताभिः (latābhiḥ) - like entangling vines (by creepers, by vines)

• परिवेष्टितः (pariveṣṭitaḥ) - completely covered and trapped by (surrounded, enveloped, entwined)

Words meanings and morphology

संमोहचिन्ताविटपः (saṁmohacintāviṭapaḥ) - its main shoots are made of confusion and worry (having deep delusion and anxiety as branches)

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of saṃmohacintāviṭapa

saṁmohacintāviṭapa - whose branches are delusion and anxiety

Compound type : bahuvrīhi (saṃmoha+cintā+viṭapa)

• saṃmoha – deep delusion, utter confusion, infatuation
  noun (masculine)
  Prefix: sam
  Root: muh (class 4)
• cintā – thought, consideration, anxiety, worry
  noun (feminine)
  Root: cit (class 10)
• viṭapa – branch, shoot, sprout, twig
  noun (masculine)

Note: Qualifies the tree.

शोकशाखः (śokaśākhaḥ) - its smaller branches are manifestations of grief (having sorrow as branches)

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of śokaśākha

śokaśākha - having sorrow as branches

Compound type : bahuvrīhi (śoka+śākha)

• śoka – sorrow, grief, lamentation
  noun (masculine)
  Root: śuc (class 1)
• śākha – branch, bough
  noun (masculine)
  Root: śākh

Note: Qualifies the tree.

भयङ्करः (bhayaṅkaraḥ) - causing fear and dread (terrifying, dreadful, fearful)

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of bhayaṅkara

bhayaṅkara - causing fear, dreadful, terrible

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (bhaya+kara)

• bhaya – fear, dread, terror
  noun (neuter)
  Root: bhī (class 3)
• kara – making, causing, doing, hand
  noun (masculine)
  agent noun/suffix
  From root kṛ.
  Root: kṛ (class 8)

Note: Qualifies the tree.

मोहनीभिः (mohanībhiḥ) - by intoxicating or misleading desires (by deluding, by enchanting, by infatuating (feminine plural instrumental))

(adjective)

Instrumental, feminine, plural of mohanī

mohanī - deluding, enchanting, infatuating (feminine form of mohana)

Feminine form of mohana (derived from muh).

Root: muh (class 4)

Note: Qualifies pipāsābhiḥ and latābhiḥ.

पिपासाभिः (pipāsābhiḥ) - by intense, insatiable desires (by desires, by thirsts)

(noun)

Instrumental, feminine, plural of pipāsā

pipāsā - thirst, desire to drink, intense desire

desiderative noun

From root pā (to drink), desiderative stem pipās-.

Root: pā (class 1)

लताभिः (latābhiḥ) - like entangling vines (by creepers, by vines)

(noun)

Instrumental, feminine, plural of latā

latā - creeper, vine, tendril

परिवेष्टितः (pariveṣṭitaḥ) - completely covered and trapped by (surrounded, enveloped, entwined)

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of pariveṣṭita

pariveṣṭita - surrounded, encircled, enveloped, covered

Past Passive Participle

From root veṣṭ (to surround, wrap) with prefix pari.

Prefix: pari

Root: veṣṭ (class 1)

Note: Qualifies the tree.