महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-7, chapter-36, verse-11

तान्यन्तरिक्षे चिच्छेद पौत्रस्तव शितैः शरैः ।
तांश्चैव प्रतिविव्याध तदद्भुतमिवाभवत् ॥११॥

11. tānyantarikṣe ciccheda pautrastava śitaiḥ śaraiḥ ,
tāṁścaiva prativivyādha tadadbhutamivābhavat.

11. tāni antarikṣe ciccheda pautraḥ tava śitaiḥ śaraiḥ
tān ca eva prativivyādha tat adbhutam iva abhavat

11. tava pautraḥ tāni antarikṣe śitaiḥ śaraiḥ ciccheda; ca eva tān prativivyādha; tat iva adbhutam abhavat.

11. Your grandson (pautra) cut apart those (arrow-nets) in the sky with sharp arrows, and he also struck back at those very (warriors). That truly was astonishing.

Words meanings summery:

• तानि (tāni) - those (arrow-nets) (those)

• अन्तरिक्षे (antarikṣe) - in the sky (in the sky, in the intermediate space, in the atmosphere)

• चिच्छेद (ciccheda) - he cut apart (the arrow-nets) (he cut, he pierced, he separated, he destroyed)

• पौत्रः (pautraḥ) - grandson (Abhimanyu) (grandson)

• तव (tava) - your (Dhritarashtra's) (your, of you)

• शितैः (śitaiḥ) - with sharp (arrows) (with sharp, with keen, with sharpened)

• शरैः (śaraiḥ) - with arrows

• तान् (tān) - those (warriors) (those)

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• एव (eva) - indeed, also (indeed, just, only, very)

• प्रतिविव्याध (prativivyādha) - he struck back at (the warriors) (he struck back, he pierced in return)

• तत् (tat) - that (action) (that, this)

• अद्भुतम् (adbhutam) - an astonishing thing (wonder, astonishing, marvelous)

• इव (iva) - truly, indeed (used sometimes for emphasis) (like, as if, as, indeed)

• अभवत् (abhavat) - it was, it happened (it was, it happened, it became)

Words meanings and morphology

तानि (tāni) - those (arrow-nets) (those)

(pronoun)

Accusative, neuter, plural of tad

tad - that, he, she, it, they

Note: Accusative plural neuter, referring to 'iṣujālāni' from the previous verse.

अन्तरिक्षे (antarikṣe) - in the sky (in the sky, in the intermediate space, in the atmosphere)

(noun)

Locative, neuter, singular of antarikṣa

antarikṣa - sky, atmosphere, intermediate space

Note: Locative singular.

चिच्छेद (ciccheda) - he cut apart (the arrow-nets) (he cut, he pierced, he separated, he destroyed)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, past perfect (liṭ) of chid

Perfect tense

Root 'chid' (class 7), perfect tense (liṭ), 3rd person singular. Reduplication 'ci-chid'.

Root: chid (class 7)

पौत्रः (pautraḥ) - grandson (Abhimanyu) (grandson)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of pautra

pautra - grandson (son's son or daughter's son)

Derived from 'putra' (son).

Note: Nominative singular. Refers to Abhimanyu.

तव (tava) - your (Dhritarashtra's) (your, of you)

(pronoun)

Genitive, singular of yuṣmad

yuṣmad - you

Genitive singular of 'yuṣmad'.

शितैः (śitaiḥ) - with sharp (arrows) (with sharp, with keen, with sharpened)

(adjective)

Instrumental, masculine, plural of śita

śita - sharp, keen, sharpened

Past Passive Participle

From root 'śo' (to sharpen).

Root: śo (class 4)

Note: Instrumental plural.

शरैः (śaraiḥ) - with arrows

(noun)

Instrumental, masculine, plural of śara

śara - arrow

Root: śṛ (class 9)

Note: Instrumental plural.

तान् (tān) - those (warriors) (those)

(pronoun)

Accusative, masculine, plural of tad

tad - that, he, she, it, they

Note: Accusative plural masculine, referring to the warriors who hurled arrows.

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

Connective particle.

एव (eva) - indeed, also (indeed, just, only, very)

(indeclinable)

Emphatic particle.

प्रतिविव्याध (prativivyādha) - he struck back at (the warriors) (he struck back, he pierced in return)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, past perfect (liṭ) of vyadh

Perfect tense

Root 'vyadh' (class 4), with prefix 'prati'. Perfect tense (liṭ), 3rd person singular. Reduplication 'vi-vyadh'.

Prefix: prati

Root: vyadh (class 4)

तत् (tat) - that (action) (that, this)

(pronoun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of tad

tad - that, this, it

Note: Nominative singular neuter.

अद्भुतम् (adbhutam) - an astonishing thing (wonder, astonishing, marvelous)

(adjective)

Nominative, neuter, singular of adbhuta

adbhuta - wonderful, marvelous, astonishing, a wonder

Note: Nominative singular neuter, agreeing with 'tat'.

इव (iva) - truly, indeed (used sometimes for emphasis) (like, as if, as, indeed)

(indeclinable)

Particle of comparison or emphasis.

अभवत् (abhavat) - it was, it happened (it was, it happened, it became)

(verb)

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

Root 'bhū' (class 1). Imperfect tense (laṅ), 3rd person singular. With augment 'a-'.

Root: bhū (class 1)