महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-6, chapter-8, verse-8

मिथुनानि च जायन्ते स्त्रियश्चाप्सरसोपमाः ।
तेषां ते क्षीरिणां क्षीरं पिबन्त्यमृतसंनिभम् ॥८॥

8. mithunāni ca jāyante striyaścāpsarasopamāḥ ,
teṣāṁ te kṣīriṇāṁ kṣīraṁ pibantyamṛtasaṁnibham.

8. mithunāni ca jāyante striyaḥ ca apsarasopamāḥ |
teṣām te kṣīriṇām kṣīram pibanti amṛtasaṃnibham

8. ca mithunāni jāyante ca striyaḥ apsarasopamāḥ
te kṣīriṇām teṣām amṛtasaṃnibham kṣīram pibanti

8. Couples are born, and women who resemble Apsarases. They drink the nectar-like milk from the milk-giving cows.

Words meanings summery:

• मिथुनानि (mithunāni) - couples (male and female) (pairs, couples, male and female duos)

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• जायन्ते (jāyante) - are born (are born, arise)

• स्त्रियः (striyaḥ) - women

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• अप्सरसोपमाः (apsarasopamāḥ) - who resemble Apsarases (like Apsarases, resembling celestial nymphs)

• तेषाम् (teṣām) - of those (of them, to them, their)

• ते (te) - they (the people born) (they, those)

• क्षीरिणाम् (kṣīriṇām) - of the milk-giving cows (of the milk-givers, of those having milk)

• क्षीरम् (kṣīram) - milk

• पिबन्ति (pibanti) - they drink

• अमृतसंनिभम् (amṛtasaṁnibham) - nectar-like (resembling nectar, like ambrosia)

Words meanings and morphology

मिथुनानि (mithunāni) - couples (male and female) (pairs, couples, male and female duos)

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, plural of mithuna

mithuna - a pair, a couple, male and female

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

जायन्ते (jāyante) - are born (are born, arise)

(verb)

3rd person , plural, middle, present (laṭ) of jan

Present Middle

root jan (Div. 4) in passive sense

Root: jan (class 4)

स्त्रियः (striyaḥ) - women

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, plural of strī

strī - woman, female

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

अप्सरसोपमाः (apsarasopamāḥ) - who resemble Apsarases (like Apsarases, resembling celestial nymphs)

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, plural of apsarasopamā

apsarasopamā - resembling Apsarases

Compound type : bahuvrīhi (apsaras+upamā)

• apsaras – celestial nymph, Apsaras
  noun (feminine)
• upamā – comparison, resemblance, simile
  noun (feminine)

तेषाम् (teṣām) - of those (of them, to them, their)

(pronoun)

Genitive, masculine, plural of tad

tad - that, those

Note: Refers to 'kṣīriṇām'.

ते (te) - they (the people born) (they, those)

(pronoun)

Nominative, masculine, plural of tad

tad - that, those

Note: Refers to the 'mithunāni' (couples/people) previously mentioned.

क्षीरिणाम् (kṣīriṇām) - of the milk-giving cows (of the milk-givers, of those having milk)

(adjective)

Genitive, masculine, plural of kṣīrin

kṣīrin - milk-giving, having milk, a milch cow

Possessive suffix -in on 'kṣīra'.

Note: Qualifies an implied 'cows' or 'animals'.

क्षीरम् (kṣīram) - milk

(noun)

Accusative, neuter, singular of kṣīra

kṣīra - milk, juice, sap

Note: Object of 'pibanti'.

पिबन्ति (pibanti) - they drink

(verb)

3rd person , plural, active, present (laṭ) of pā

Present Active

root pā (Div. 1)

Root: pā (class 1)

अमृतसंनिभम् (amṛtasaṁnibham) - nectar-like (resembling nectar, like ambrosia)

(adjective)

Accusative, neuter, singular of amṛtasaṃnibha

amṛtasaṁnibha - resembling nectar

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (amṛta+saṃnibha)

• amṛta – nectar, ambrosia, immortality
  noun (neuter)
• saṃnibha – resembling, like
  adjective (masculine)
  Prefix: sam