महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-5, chapter-158, verse-16

अनिलो वा वहेन्मेरुं द्यौर्वापि निपतेन्महीम् ।
युगं वा परिवर्तेत यद्येवं स्याद्यथात्थ माम् ॥१६॥

16. anilo vā vahenmeruṁ dyaurvāpi nipatenmahīm ,
yugaṁ vā parivarteta yadyevaṁ syādyathāttha mām.

16. anilaḥ vā vahet merum dyauḥ vā api nipatet mahīm
yugam vā parivarteta yadi evam syāt yathā āttha mām

16. yadi yathā mam āttha evam syāt vā anilaḥ merum vahet
vā dyauḥ api mahīm nipatet vā yugam parivarteta

16. Either the wind might carry Mount Meru away, or the sky might even fall to the earth, or an epoch (yuga) might be overturned – if what you say to me were indeed true.

Words meanings summery:

• अनिलः (anilaḥ) - wind, air

• वा (vā) - or, either

• वहेत् (vahet) - might carry, might bear

• मेरुम् (merum) - Meru, Mount Meru

• द्यौः (dyauḥ) - sky, heaven

• वा (vā) - or, either

• अपि (api) - even (also, even, too)

• निपतेत् (nipatet) - might fall down

• महीम् (mahīm) - earth, ground

• युगम् (yugam) - an epoch (yuga), a cosmic age (epoch, age, yoke, pair)

• वा (vā) - or, either

• परिवर्तेत (parivarteta) - might be overturned (might be overturned, might revolve)

• यदि (yadi) - if

• एवम् (evam) - thus, so, in this manner

• स्यात् (syāt) - might be, would be

• यथा (yathā) - as, just as, according to what

• आत्थ (āttha) - you say, you have said

• माम् (mām) - me

Words meanings and morphology

अनिलः (anilaḥ) - wind, air

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of anila

anila - wind, air

From √an (to breathe)

Root: an (class 2)

वा (vā) - or, either

(indeclinable)

वहेत् (vahet) - might carry, might bear

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, optative (vidhiliṅ) of vah

Optative

Optative 3rd person singular of √vah

Root: vah (class 1)

मेरुम् (merum) - Meru, Mount Meru

(proper noun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of meru

meru - name of a mythical mountain

द्यौः (dyauḥ) - sky, heaven

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of dyu

dyu - sky, heaven, day

वा (vā) - or, either

(indeclinable)

अपि (api) - even (also, even, too)

(indeclinable)

Note: Intensifying the preceding word.

निपतेत् (nipatet) - might fall down

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, optative (vidhiliṅ) of nipāt

Optative

Optative 3rd person singular of √pat (to fall) with prefix ni

Prefix: ni

Root: pat (class 1)

महीम् (mahīm) - earth, ground

(noun)

Accusative, feminine, singular of mahī

mahī - earth, ground, land

Feminine form of mahat (great)

Note: Denotes the object of falling 'to the earth'.

युगम् (yugam) - an epoch (yuga), a cosmic age (epoch, age, yoke, pair)

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of yuga

yuga - epoch, age, yoke, pair

From √yuj (to join)

Root: yuj (class 7)

वा (vā) - or, either

(indeclinable)

परिवर्तेत (parivarteta) - might be overturned (might be overturned, might revolve)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, middle, optative (vidhiliṅ) of parivart

Optative

Optative 3rd person singular, middle voice, of √vṛt (to turn) with prefix pari

Prefix: pari

Root: vṛt (class 1)

यदि (yadi) - if

(indeclinable)

एवम् (evam) - thus, so, in this manner

(indeclinable)

स्यात् (syāt) - might be, would be

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, optative (vidhiliṅ) of as

Optative

Optative 3rd person singular of √as (to be)

Root: as (class 2)

यथा (yathā) - as, just as, according to what

(indeclinable)

आत्थ (āttha) - you say, you have said

(verb)

2nd person , singular, active, perfect (lit) of ah

Perfect

Perfect 2nd person singular of √ah (to say/speak), irregular form

Root: ah

Note: The perfect tense here implies a statement made in the past but with continuing relevance.

माम् (mām) - me

(pronoun)

Accusative, singular of asmad

asmad - I, we