महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-9, chapter-11, verse-22

अथोद्यम्य गदे घोरे सशृङ्गाविव पर्वतौ ।
तावाजघ्नतुरन्योन्यं यथा भूमिचलेऽचलौ ॥२२॥

22. athodyamya gade ghore saśṛṅgāviva parvatau ,
tāvājaghnaturanyonyaṁ yathā bhūmicale'calau.

22. atha udyamya gade ghore saśṛṅgāu iva parvatau
tau ājaghnutuḥ anyonyam yathā bhūmicale acalau

22. atha tau parvatau iva saśṛṅgāu ghore gade udyamya anyonyam ājaghnutuḥ,
yathā bhūmicale acalau

22. Then those two warriors, raising their dreadful maces like two mountains with peaks, struck each other, just like two immovable mountains during an earthquake.

Words meanings summery:

• अथ (atha) - then, thereupon, now

• उद्यम्य (udyamya) - having raised, having lifted up

• गदे (gade) - two maces

• घोरे (ghore) - dreadful (dreadful, terrifying, fierce)

• सशृङ्गाउ (saśṛṅgāu) - having peaks (having peaks, horned, with summits)

• इव (iva) - like (like, as, as if)

• पर्वतौ (parvatau) - two mountains

• तौ (tau) - those two

• आजघ्नुतुः (ājaghnutuḥ) - they two struck, they two beat

• अन्योन्यम् (anyonyam) - each other, one another

• यथा (yathā) - just as, as

• भूमिचले (bhūmicale) - in an earthquake, when the earth is shaking

• अचलौ (acalau) - two immovable ones, two mountains

Words meanings and morphology

अथ (atha) - then, thereupon, now

(indeclinable)

उद्यम्य (udyamya) - having raised, having lifted up

(indeclinable)

absolutive

root yam with prefix ud

Prefix: ud

Root: yam (class 1)

गदे (gade) - two maces

(noun)

Accusative, feminine, dual of gadā

gadā - mace, club

घोरे (ghore) - dreadful (dreadful, terrifying, fierce)

(adjective)

Accusative, feminine, dual of ghora

ghora - dreadful, fierce, terrifying

सशृङ्गाउ (saśṛṅgāu) - having peaks (having peaks, horned, with summits)

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, dual of saśṛṅga

saśṛṅga - having peaks, having horns, horned

bahuvrihi compound of sa and śṛṅga

Compound type : bahuvrihi (sa+śṛṅga)

• sa – with
  indeclinable
• śṛṅga – horn, peak, summit
  noun (neuter)

इव (iva) - like (like, as, as if)

(indeclinable)

पर्वतौ (parvatau) - two mountains

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, dual of parvata

parvata - mountain, rock

तौ (tau) - those two

(pronoun)

Nominative, masculine, dual of tad

tad - that, he, she, it

आजघ्नुतुः (ājaghnutuḥ) - they two struck, they two beat

(verb)

3rd person , dual, active, perfect (liṭ) of han

reduplicated past (perfect)

root han in lit tense, dual 3rd person

Prefix: ā

Root: han (class 2)

अन्योन्यम् (anyonyam) - each other, one another

(pronoun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of anyonya

anyonya - each other, one another

यथा (yathā) - just as, as

(indeclinable)

भूमिचले (bhūmicale) - in an earthquake, when the earth is shaking

(noun)

Locative, masculine, locative of bhūmicala

bhūmicala - earthquake, trembling of the earth

tatpurusha compound of bhūmi and cala

Compound type : tatpurusha (bhūmi+cala)

• bhūmi – earth, ground
  noun (feminine)
• cala – moving, shaking, trembling
  adjective (masculine)
  Root: cal (class 1)

अचलौ (acalau) - two immovable ones, two mountains

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, dual of acala

acala - immovable, mountain

a + cala

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