महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-14, chapter-2, verse-15

अकृता ते मतिस्तात पुनर्बाल्येन मुह्यसे ।
किमाकाशे वयं सर्वे प्रलपाम मुहुर्मुहुः ॥१५॥

15. akṛtā te matistāta punarbālyena muhyase ,
kimākāśe vayaṁ sarve pralapāma muhurmuhuḥ.

15. akṛtā te matiḥ tāta punaḥ bālyena muhyase
kim ākāśe vayam sarve pralapāma muhurmuhuḥ

15. tāta,
te matiḥ akṛtā; punaḥ bālyena muhyase.
kim vayam sarve muhurmuhuḥ ākāśe pralapāma?

15. O dear child (tāta), your intellect is immature, and you are again bewildered by childishness. Are we all repeatedly babbling into the empty sky?

Words meanings summery:

• अकृता (akṛtā) - (your intellect is) immature (unmade, immature, unprepared)

• ते (te) - your (intellect) (your, to you)

• मतिः (matiḥ) - your intellect or understanding (intellect, mind, thought, opinion)

• तात (tāta) - O dear child (used by an elder to a younger person) (O dear child, O father, O friend)

• पुनः (punaḥ) - again (again, anew, but, moreover)

• बाल्येन (bālyena) - by (your) childish nature/behavior (by childishness, by youth)

• मुह्यसे (muhyase) - you are bewildered (by childishness) (you are bewildered, you are confused, you are deluded)

• किम् (kim) - (interrogative particle) Are...? (what? why? whether?)

• आकाशे (ākāśe) - into the empty sky (implying pointlessness) (in the sky, in space, in the ether)

• वयम् (vayam) - we (the speakers, implying 'people like us') (we)

• सर्वे (sarve) - all of us (all, everyone)

• प्रलपाम (pralapāma) - we (futility) babble (we babble, we chatter, we lament)

• मुहुर्मुहुः (muhurmuhuḥ) - repeatedly, incessantly (repeatedly, again and again, frequently)

Words meanings and morphology

अकृता (akṛtā) - (your intellect is) immature (unmade, immature, unprepared)

(participle)

Nominative, feminine, singular of akṛta

akṛta - undone, not done, unmade, unprepared, immature

Past Passive Participle (negative)

Negative prefix 'a' + kṛta (PPP of root kṛ, class 8)

Compound type : nañ-tatpurusha (a+kṛta)

• a – not, un-
  indeclinable
  negative prefix
• kṛta – done, made, performed
  participle
  Past Passive Participle
  from root kṛ
  Root: kṛ (class 8)

Note: Agrees with matiḥ.

ते (te) - your (intellect) (your, to you)

(pronoun)

Genitive, singular of tvad

tvad - you

मतिः (matiḥ) - your intellect or understanding (intellect, mind, thought, opinion)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of mati

mati - intellect, mind, thought, opinion, intention, understanding

verbal noun

from root man (to think)

Root: man (class 4)

Note: Subject of the implied verb "is".

तात (tāta) - O dear child (used by an elder to a younger person) (O dear child, O father, O friend)

(noun)

Vocative, masculine, singular of tāta

tāta - father, dear child, dear one (term of endearment)

Note: Term of address.

पुनः (punaḥ) - again (again, anew, but, moreover)

(indeclinable)

बाल्येन (bālyena) - by (your) childish nature/behavior (by childishness, by youth)

(noun)

Instrumental, neuter, singular of bālya

bālya - childishness, childhood, youth

Note: Cause of bewilderment.

मुह्यसे (muhyase) - you are bewildered (by childishness) (you are bewildered, you are confused, you are deluded)

(verb)

2nd person , singular, passive, present (laṭ) of muh

Root: muh (class 4)

Note: The root muh in the 4th class can be active or medio-passive (ātmanepada). Here ātmanepada ending.

किम् (kim) - (interrogative particle) Are...? (what? why? whether?)

(indeclinable)

Note: Often used to introduce a rhetorical question.

आकाशे (ākāśe) - into the empty sky (implying pointlessness) (in the sky, in space, in the ether)

(noun)

Locative, masculine, singular of ākāśa

ākāśa - sky, space, ether, atmosphere

Note: Denotes location.

वयम् (vayam) - we (the speakers, implying 'people like us') (we)

(pronoun)

Nominative, plural of aham

aham - I

Note: Subject of pralapāma.

सर्वे (sarve) - all of us (all, everyone)

(pronoun)

Nominative, masculine, plural of sarva

sarva - all, every, whole

Note: Agrees with vayam.

प्रलपाम (pralapāma) - we (futility) babble (we babble, we chatter, we lament)

(verb)

1st person , plural, active, present (laṭ) of lap

Prefix: pra

Root: lap (class 1)

मुहुर्मुहुः (muhurmuhuḥ) - repeatedly, incessantly (repeatedly, again and again, frequently)

(indeclinable)

reduplicated form of muhu (instantly)

Note: Adverb of repetition.