वाल्मीकि-रामायणम् vālmīki-rāmāyaṇam - book-5, chapter-32, verse-6

कल्याणी बत गथेयं लौकिकी प्रतिभाति मे ।
एहि जीवन्तमानदो नरं वर्षशतादपि ॥६॥

6. kalyāṇī bata gatheyaṃ laukikī pratibhāti me ,
ehi jīvantamānado naraṃ varṣaśatādapi.

6. kalyāṇī bata gathā iyam laukikī pratibhāti
me ehi jīvantam ānadaḥ naram varṣaśatāt api

6. ehi bata iyam laukikī gathā kalyāṇī me
pratibhāti jīvantam naram ānadaḥ varṣaśatāt api

6. Come! Indeed, this popular saying appears auspicious to me: 'Joy comes to a living person even after a hundred years.'

Words meanings summery:

• कल्याणी (kalyāṇī) - auspicious (auspicious, blessed, beautiful)

• बत (bata) - indeed (alas, oh, indeed (exclamatory particle))

• गथा (gathā) - saying, proverb (song, verse, saying, proverb)

• इयम् (iyam) - this (feminine)

• लौकिकी (laukikī) - popular (worldly, popular, common, secular)

• प्रतिभाति (pratibhāti) - appears (to me) (appears, seems, shines forth, occurs to)

• मे (me) - to me (to me, my, for me)

• एहि (ehi) - addressed to Hanuman (come! (imperative))

• जीवन्तम् (jīvantam) - a living person (living, alive (accusative))

• आनदः (ānadaḥ) - joy, happiness

• नरम् (naram) - a person (man, person (accusative))

• वर्षशतात् (varṣaśatāt) - even after a hundred years (implying a long time) (from a hundred years, after a hundred years)

• अपि (api) - even (even, also, too)

Words meanings and morphology

कल्याणी (kalyāṇī) - auspicious (auspicious, blessed, beautiful)

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, singular of kalyāṇa

kalyāṇa - auspicious, good, beautiful, fortunate

Feminine form of kalyāṇa.

बत (bata) - indeed (alas, oh, indeed (exclamatory particle))

(indeclinable)

Expresses wonder, pity, or affirmation.

गथा (gathā) - saying, proverb (song, verse, saying, proverb)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of gāthā

gāthā - song, verse, stanza, saying, proverb

A feminine noun often referring to a traditional verse or popular saying.

Root: gā (class 3)

Note: Subject.

इयम् (iyam) - this (feminine)

(pronoun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of idam

idam - this, she, it

Feminine nominative singular of the demonstrative pronoun `idam`.

लौकिकी (laukikī) - popular (worldly, popular, common, secular)

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, singular of laukika

laukika - worldly, popular, customary, belonging to the world

Derived from loka (world) with suffix -ika. Feminine form.

प्रतिभाति (pratibhāti) - appears (to me) (appears, seems, shines forth, occurs to)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, present (laṭ) of pratibhā

Present tense, 3rd person singular.

Derived from prefix prati + root bhā (to shine, to appear).

Prefix: prati

Root: bhā (class 2)

मे (me) - to me (to me, my, for me)

(pronoun)

Dative, singular of asmad

asmad - I, me

Enclitic form of the 1st person pronoun.

एहि (ehi) - addressed to Hanuman (come! (imperative))

(verb)

2nd person , singular, active, imperative (loṭ) of i

Imperative, 2nd person singular.

Root `i` (to go/come), 2nd singular imperative active.

Root: i (class 2)

जीवन्तम् (jīvantam) - a living person (living, alive (accusative))

(adjective)

Accusative, masculine, singular of jīvat

jīvat - living, alive, being alive

Present Active Participle

Derived from root jīv (to live) with suffix -at.

Root: jīv (class 1)

Note: Part of the quoted proverb.

आनदः (ānadaḥ) - joy, happiness

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of ānada

ānada - joy, happiness, delight (variant of ānanda), also sound, noise

Often a poetic or metrical variant of `ānanda`. In context, it means 'joy'.

Root: nad (class 1)

Note: Part of the quoted proverb.

नरम् (naram) - a person (man, person (accusative))

(noun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of nara

nara - man, person, male

Root: nṛ

Note: Part of the quoted proverb.

वर्षशतात् (varṣaśatāt) - even after a hundred years (implying a long time) (from a hundred years, after a hundred years)

(noun)

Ablative, neuter, singular of varṣaśata

varṣaśata - a hundred years

Compound of varṣa (year) and śata (hundred).

Compound type : karmadhāraya (varṣa+śata)

• varṣa – year, rain
  noun (masculine)
  Root: vṛṣ (class 1)
• śata – hundred
  noun (neuter)

Note: Part of the quoted proverb.

अपि (api) - even (even, also, too)

(indeclinable)

Preposition or particle.

Note: Part of the quoted proverb.