महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-14, chapter-80, verse-10

व्यादिशन्तु च किं विप्राः प्रायश्चित्तमिहाद्य मे ।
सुनृशंसस्य पापस्य पितृहन्तू रणाजिरे ॥१०॥

10. vyādiśantu ca kiṁ viprāḥ prāyaścittamihādya me ,
sunṛśaṁsasya pāpasya pitṛhantū raṇājire.

10. vyādiśantu ca kim viprāḥ prāyaścittam iha adya
me sunṛśaṃsasya pāpasya pitṛhantū raṇājire

10. viprāḥ me sunṛśaṃsasya pāpasya pitṛhantū
raṇājire iha adya kim prāyaścittam ca vyādiśantu

10. O Brahmins, please prescribe for me today what expiation there is for me, the exceedingly cruel and sinful killer of my father on the battlefield.

Words meanings summery:

• व्यादिशन्तु (vyādiśantu) - let them prescribe, let them command, let them direct

• च (ca) - and, also

• किम् (kim) - what, why, whether

• विप्राः (viprāḥ) - O Brahmins, wise ones, sages

• प्रायश्चित्तम् (prāyaścittam) - expiation, penance, atonement

• इह (iha) - here, in this world, now

• अद्य (adya) - today, now, at present

• मे (me) - for me, to me, my

• सुनृशंसस्य (sunṛśaṁsasya) - of the exceedingly cruel, of the very wicked

• पापस्य (pāpasya) - of the sinful, of the wicked, of the evil

• पितृहन्तू (pitṛhantū) - Refers to the speaker, who killed his father. (of the father-killer, of the patricide)

• रणाजिरे (raṇājire) - in the battlefield, in the arena of battle

Words meanings and morphology

व्यादिशन्तु (vyādiśantu) - let them prescribe, let them command, let them direct

(verb)

3rd person , plural, active, imperative (loṭ) of vyādiś

imperative

3rd person plural active imperative

Prefixes: vi+ā

Root: diś (class 6)

च (ca) - and, also

(indeclinable)

किम् (kim) - what, why, whether

(pronoun)

neuter, singular of kim

kim - what, which, why, whether

neuter nominative/accusative singular

विप्राः (viprāḥ) - O Brahmins, wise ones, sages

(noun)

Vocative, masculine, plural of vipra

vipra - Brahmin, wise, inspired, sage

प्रायश्चित्तम् (prāyaścittam) - expiation, penance, atonement

(noun)

neuter, singular of prāyaścitta

prāyaścitta - expiation, penance, atonement

इह (iha) - here, in this world, now

(indeclinable)

अद्य (adya) - today, now, at present

(indeclinable)

मे (me) - for me, to me, my

(pronoun)

singular of asmad

asmad - I, we

enclitic form of asmad

सुनृशंसस्य (sunṛśaṁsasya) - of the exceedingly cruel, of the very wicked

(adjective)

Genitive, masculine, singular of sunṛśaṃsa

sunṛśaṁsa - exceedingly cruel, very wicked

masculine/neuter genitive singular

Note: Agrees with the implicit agent (speaker) of 'pitṛhantū'.

पापस्य (pāpasya) - of the sinful, of the wicked, of the evil

(adjective)

Genitive, masculine, singular of pāpa

pāpa - sinful, wicked, evil; sin, evil

masculine/neuter genitive singular

Note: Agrees with the implicit agent (speaker) of 'pitṛhantū'.

पितृहन्तू (pitṛhantū) - Refers to the speaker, who killed his father. (of the father-killer, of the patricide)

(noun)

Genitive, masculine, singular of pitṛhantṛ

pitṛhantṛ - father-killer, patricide

Agent noun from 'pitṛ' (father) and root 'han' (to strike, kill). The form 'pitṛhantū' appears to be an anomalous genitive singular, or possibly a vocative singular. Given the context with 'sunṛśaṃsasya pāpasya', it is intended as genitive singular. The standard genitive singular for a 'tṛ'-stem noun is 'pitṛhantuḥ'.

Compound type : tatpurusha (pitṛ+hantṛ)

• pitṛ – father
  noun (masculine)
• hantṛ – killer, slayer, destroyer
  noun (masculine)
  agent noun
  Derived from root han (to strike, kill) with agent suffix -tṛ.
  Root: han (class 2)

Note: Grammatically irregular form, contextually functioning as genitive singular.

रणाजिरे (raṇājire) - in the battlefield, in the arena of battle

(noun)

Locative, neuter, singular of raṇājira

raṇājira - battlefield, arena of battle

locative singular

Compound type : tatpurusha (raṇa+ajira)

• raṇa – battle, war, conflict
  noun (masculine)
• ajira – courtyard, arena, open space
  noun (neuter)