वाल्मीकि-रामायणम् vālmīki-rāmāyaṇam - book-4, chapter-55, verse-5

परम्पराणां भक्षिष्ये वानराणां मृतं मृतम् ।
उवाचैवं वचः पक्षी तान्निरीक्ष्य प्लवंगमान् ॥५॥

5. paramparāṇāṃ bhakṣiṣye vānarāṇāṃ mṛtaṃ mṛtam ,
uvācaivaṃ vacaḥ pakṣī tānnirīkṣya plavaṃgamān.

5. paramparāṇāṃ bhakṣiṣye vānarāṇāṃ mṛtaṃ mṛtam
uvāca evaṃ vacaḥ pakṣī tān nirīkṣya plavaṅgamān

5. ahaṃ paramparāṇāṃ vānarāṇāṃ mṛtaṃ mṛtam bhakṣiṣye
pakṣī tān plavaṅgamān nirīkṣya evaṃ vacaḥ uvāca

5. I shall eat the dead monkeys, one after another, from their successive generations. The bird spoke these words, looking at those monkeys.

Words meanings summery:

• परम्पराणां (paramparāṇāṁ) - of successive generations (of successive generations, of traditions)

• भक्षिष्ये (bhakṣiṣye) - I shall eat (I will eat)

• वानराणां (vānarāṇāṁ) - of monkeys

• मृतं (mṛtaṁ) - the dead one (dead one, deceased)

• मृतम् (mṛtam) - each dead one (repetition for emphasis) (dead one, deceased)

• उवाच (uvāca) - spoke (spoke, said)

• एवं (evaṁ) - these words (referring to the preceding statement) (thus, in this manner, so)

• वचः (vacaḥ) - words (word, speech)

• पक्षी (pakṣī) - the bird (bird, winged creature)

• तान् (tān) - those

• निरीक्ष्य (nirīkṣya) - looking at (having seen, observing)

• प्लवङ्गमान् (plavaṅgamān) - monkeys (monkeys, jumpers)

Words meanings and morphology

परम्पराणां (paramparāṇāṁ) - of successive generations (of successive generations, of traditions)

(noun)

Genitive, feminine, plural of paramparā

paramparā - succession, series, tradition, lineage

भक्षिष्ये (bhakṣiṣye) - I shall eat (I will eat)

(verb)

1st person , singular, middle, future (lṛṭ) of bhakṣ

Root: √bhakṣ (class 1)

वानराणां (vānarāṇāṁ) - of monkeys

(noun)

Genitive, masculine, plural of vānara

vānara - monkey

मृतं (mṛtaṁ) - the dead one (dead one, deceased)

(adjective)

Accusative, masculine, singular of mṛta

mṛta - dead, deceased, died

Past Passive Participle

PPP of √mṛ

Root: √mṛ (class 6)

Note: Used substantively here to mean 'a dead one'.

मृतम् (mṛtam) - each dead one (repetition for emphasis) (dead one, deceased)

(adjective)

Accusative, masculine, singular of mṛta

mṛta - dead, deceased, died

Past Passive Participle

PPP of √mṛ

Root: √mṛ (class 6)

Note: Repetition of mṛtam mṛtam means 'each dead one' or 'dead one by dead one'.

उवाच (uvāca) - spoke (spoke, said)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, perfect (liṭ) of vac

Root: √vac (class 2)

एवं (evaṁ) - these words (referring to the preceding statement) (thus, in this manner, so)

(indeclinable)

वचः (vacaḥ) - words (word, speech)

(noun)

Accusative, neuter, singular of vacas

vacas - word, speech, saying

Root: √vac (class 2)

पक्षी (pakṣī) - the bird (bird, winged creature)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of pakṣin

pakṣin - bird, winged, belonging to a party or side

तान् (tān) - those

(pronoun)

Accusative, masculine, plural of tad

tad - that, those (demonstrative pronoun)

निरीक्ष्य (nirīkṣya) - looking at (having seen, observing)

(indeclinable)

Absolutive

Absolutive of √īkṣ with nir prefix

Prefix: nir

Root: √īkṣ (class 1)

प्लवङ्गमान् (plavaṅgamān) - monkeys (monkeys, jumpers)

(noun)

Accusative, masculine, plural of plavaṅgama

plavaṅgama - monkey (lit. 'one who goes by leaping')

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (plava+gama)

• plava – leaping, jumping, floating, boat
  noun (masculine)
  Root: √plu (class 1)
• gama – going, moving, a goer
  adjective (masculine)
  suffix -a from root
  Root: √gam (class 1)