महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-14, chapter-21, verse-5

ब्राह्मण्युवाच ।
कस्माद्वागभवत्पूर्वं कस्मात्पश्चान्मनोऽभवत् ।
मनसा चिन्तितं वाक्यं यदा समभिपद्यते ॥५॥

5. brāhmaṇyuvāca ,
kasmādvāgabhavatpūrvaṁ kasmātpaścānmano'bhavat ,
manasā cintitaṁ vākyaṁ yadā samabhipadyate.

5. brāhmaṇī uvāca kasmāt vāk abhavat pūrvam kasmāt paścāt
manaḥ abhavat manasā cintitam vākyam yadā samabhipadyate

5. brāhmaṇī uvāca: vāk kasmāt pūrvam abhavat? manaḥ ca kasmāt paścāt abhavat? yadā manasā cintitam vākyam samabhipadyate.

5. The Brāhmaṇī asked: 'From what did speech (vāc) arise first, and from what did the mind (manas) arise later? (I ask this because I observe) when a statement conceived by the mind (manas) fully manifests.'

Words meanings summery:

• ब्राह्मणी (brāhmaṇī) - The Brāhmaṇī (a female scholar/sage) (a Brāhmaṇa woman, wife of a Brāhmaṇa, female scholar)

• उवाच (uvāca) - said (said, spoke)

• कस्मात् (kasmāt) - from what (from what, why)

• वाक् (vāk) - speech (vāc) (speech, word, voice)

• अभवत् (abhavat) - arose (was, became, arose)

• पूर्वम् (pūrvam) - first (before, formerly, first)

• कस्मात् (kasmāt) - from what (from what, why)

• पश्चात् (paścāt) - later (afterwards, later, behind)

• मनः (manaḥ) - the mind (manas) (mind, intellect, heart, consciousness)

• अभवत् (abhavat) - arose (was, became, arose)

• मनसा (manasā) - by the mind (manas) (by the mind, with the mind)

• चिन्तितम् (cintitam) - conceived (thought, considered, conceived)

• वाक्यम् (vākyam) - a statement (sentence, statement, word, speech)

• यदा (yadā) - when (when, at which time)

• समभिपद्यते (samabhipadyate) - fully manifests (reaches, attains, obtains, becomes manifest, occurs)

Words meanings and morphology

ब्राह्मणी (brāhmaṇī) - The Brāhmaṇī (a female scholar/sage) (a Brāhmaṇa woman, wife of a Brāhmaṇa, female scholar)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of brāhmaṇī

brāhmaṇī - a Brāhmaṇa woman, a female theologian, wife of a Brāhmaṇa

Feminine form of `brāhmaṇa`.

Note: Subject of `uvāca`.

उवाच (uvāca) - said (said, spoke)

(verb)

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

Perfect Active

From `√vac` (to speak). Reduplicated form for perfect.

Root: vac (class 2)

कस्मात् (kasmāt) - from what (from what, why)

(pronoun)

Ablative, neuter, singular of kim

kim - who, what, which

Interrogative pronoun, ablative singular.

वाक् (vāk) - speech (vāc) (speech, word, voice)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of vāc

vāc - speech, word, voice, language, Sarasvati (goddess of speech)

From `√vac` (to speak).

Root: vac (class 2)

Note: Subject of `abhavat`.

अभवत् (abhavat) - arose (was, became, arose)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, imperfect (laṅ) of √bhū

Imperfect Active

From `√bhū` (to be, become). Augment `a-` indicates imperfect.

Root: bhū (class 1)

पूर्वम् (pūrvam) - first (before, formerly, first)

(indeclinable)

Also used adverbially.

Note: Adverb of time.

कस्मात् (kasmāt) - from what (from what, why)

(pronoun)

Ablative, neuter, singular of kim

kim - who, what, which

Interrogative pronoun, ablative singular.

पश्चात् (paścāt) - later (afterwards, later, behind)

(indeclinable)

Adverbial form.

Note: Adverb of time.

मनः (manaḥ) - the mind (manas) (mind, intellect, heart, consciousness)

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of manas

manas - mind, intellect, understanding, thought, consciousness, heart

From `√man` (to think).

Root: man (class 4)

Note: Subject of `abhavat`.

अभवत् (abhavat) - arose (was, became, arose)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, imperfect (laṅ) of √bhū

Imperfect Active

From `√bhū` (to be, become). Augment `a-` indicates imperfect.

Root: bhū (class 1)

मनसा (manasā) - by the mind (manas) (by the mind, with the mind)

(noun)

Instrumental, neuter, singular of manas

manas - mind, intellect, understanding, thought, consciousness, heart

From `√man` (to think).

Root: man (class 4)

Note: Agent of `cintitam`.

चिन्तितम् (cintitam) - conceived (thought, considered, conceived)

(adjective)

Nominative, neuter, singular of cintita

cintita - thought, considered, imagined, meditated upon

Past Passive Participle

From `√cint` (to think, consider), itself a denominative from `cit`.

Root: cint (class 10)

वाक्यम् (vākyam) - a statement (sentence, statement, word, speech)

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of vākya

vākya - sentence, statement, word, speech, discourse

From `vāc` (speech) + `ya` suffix.

Root: vac (class 2)

Note: Subject of `samabhipadyate`.

यदा (yadā) - when (when, at which time)

(indeclinable)

From `yad` (which) + `dā` suffix.

समभिपद्यते (samabhipadyate) - fully manifests (reaches, attains, obtains, becomes manifest, occurs)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, middle, present (laṭ) of √pad

Present Middle

From `sam-abhi-√pad` (to reach, attain, obtain, happen, become manifest).

Prefixes: sam+abhi

Root: pad (class 4)