महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-13, chapter-2, verse-24

दुष्कृतं मम किं नु स्याद्भवतां वा द्विजर्षभाः ।
येन नाशं जगामाग्निः कृतं कुपुरुषेष्विव ॥२४॥

24. duṣkṛtaṁ mama kiṁ nu syādbhavatāṁ vā dvijarṣabhāḥ ,
yena nāśaṁ jagāmāgniḥ kṛtaṁ kupuruṣeṣviva.

24. duṣkṛtam mama kim nu syāt bhavatām vā dvijarṣabhāḥ
yena nāśam jagāma agniḥ kṛtam kupuruṣeṣu iva

24. dvijarṣabhāḥ,
mama vā bhavatām kim nu duṣkṛtam syāt yena agniḥ nāśam jagāma iva kupuruṣeṣu kṛtam [naśyati]

24. O best among Brahmins, what misdeed (karma) could be mine, or yours, by which Agni has disappeared, just as a good deed (karma) is wasted on wicked individuals?

Words meanings summery:

• दुष्कृतम् (duṣkṛtam) - misdeed (karma) (misdeed, evil act, sin)

• मम (mama) - mine (my, of me)

• किम् (kim) - what? (what? why?)

• नु (nu) - (interrogative particle, implying uncertainty) (indeed, now, then (interrogative or emphatic particle))

• स्यात् (syāt) - could be (might be, may be)

• भवताम् (bhavatām) - or yours (plural, honorific) (of you (plural, honorific))

• वा (vā) - or (or, either)

• द्विजर्षभाः (dvijarṣabhāḥ) - O best among Brahmins (O best of Brahmins, O eminent twice-born ones)

• येन (yena) - by which (by which, whereby, because of which)

• नाशम् (nāśam) - disappearance (destruction, disappearance, ruin)

• जगाम (jagāma) - has gone (to disappearance), disappeared (he/she/it went, proceeded, reached)

• अग्निः (agniḥ) - Agni (fire, the fire god)

• कृतम् (kṛtam) - a good deed (karma) (done, made; a deed, act)

• कुपुरुषेषु (kupuruṣeṣu) - on wicked individuals (among bad/wicked men)

• इव (iva) - just as, like (like, as, as if)

Words meanings and morphology

दुष्कृतम् (duṣkṛtam) - misdeed (karma) (misdeed, evil act, sin)

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of duṣkṛta

duṣkṛta - badly done, ill-done; a misdeed, sin

Past Passive Participle

Past Passive Participle of dus-√kṛ (to do badly)

Compound type : tatpurusha (dus+kṛta)

• dus – bad, difficult, ill
  indeclinable
• kṛta – done, made, accomplished; deed, act
  noun (neuter)
  Past Passive Participle
  Past Passive Participle of √kṛ (to do, make)
  Root: kṛ (class 8)

मम (mama) - mine (my, of me)

(pronoun)

Genitive, singular of mad

mad - I, me (first person pronoun)

किम् (kim) - what? (what? why?)

(interrogative pronoun)

नु (nu) - (interrogative particle, implying uncertainty) (indeed, now, then (interrogative or emphatic particle))

(indeclinable)

स्यात् (syāt) - could be (might be, may be)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, optative (liṅ) of √as

Optative

3rd person singular, Optative mood, Parasmaipada, from √as

Root: as (class 2)

भवताम् (bhavatām) - or yours (plural, honorific) (of you (plural, honorific))

(pronoun)

Genitive, plural of bhavat

bhavat - you (honorific form)

वा (vā) - or (or, either)

(indeclinable)

द्विजर्षभाः (dvijarṣabhāḥ) - O best among Brahmins (O best of Brahmins, O eminent twice-born ones)

(noun)

Vocative, masculine, plural of dvijarṣabha

dvijarṣabha - a chief among Brahmins, an eminent twice-born person

Compound type : tatpurusha (dvija+ṛṣabha)

• dvija – twice-born (Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya); bird, tooth
  noun (masculine)
• ṛṣabha – bull; best, excellent, chief
  noun (masculine)

येन (yena) - by which (by which, whereby, because of which)

(pronoun)

Instrumental, masculine, singular of yad

yad - which, what, who

नाशम् (nāśam) - disappearance (destruction, disappearance, ruin)

(noun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of nāśa

nāśa - loss, destruction, ruin, disappearance

Root: naś (class 4)

जगाम (jagāma) - has gone (to disappearance), disappeared (he/she/it went, proceeded, reached)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, past perfect (lit) of √gam

Perfect

3rd person singular, Perfect tense, Parasmaipada, reduplicated perfect of √gam

Root: gam (class 1)

अग्निः (agniḥ) - Agni (fire, the fire god)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of agni

agni - fire, god of fire

कृतम् (kṛtam) - a good deed (karma) (done, made; a deed, act)

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of kṛta

kṛta - done, made, accomplished; a deed, act; good deed

Past Passive Participle

Past Passive Participle of √kṛ (to do, make), used as a noun

Root: kṛ (class 8)

कुपुरुषेषु (kupuruṣeṣu) - on wicked individuals (among bad/wicked men)

(noun)

Locative, masculine, plural of kupuruṣa

kupuruṣa - a bad man, a wicked person, an ignoble person

Compound type : tatpurusha (ku+puruṣa)

• ku – bad, evil, wicked, contemptible (prefix)
  indeclinable
• puruṣa – man, human being, person
  noun (masculine)

इव (iva) - just as, like (like, as, as if)

(indeclinable)