वाल्मीकि-रामायणम् vālmīki-rāmāyaṇam - book-6, chapter-31, verse-39

अद्भुतश्च विचित्रश्च तेषामासीत् समागमः ।
तत्र वानरसैन्यानां शलभानामिवोद्गमः ॥३९॥

39. adbhutaśca vicitraśca teṣāmāsīt samāgamaḥ ,
tatra vānarasainyānāṃ śalabhānāmivodgamaḥ.

39. adbhutaḥ ca vicitraḥ ca teṣām āsīt samāgamaḥ
tatra vānarasainyānām śalabhānām iva udgamaḥ

39. teṣām samāgamaḥ adbhutaḥ ca vicitraḥ ca āsīt
tatra vānarasainyānām udgamaḥ śalabhānām iva

39. Their gathering was both wondrous and diverse. The emergence of the monkey armies there was like the rising of locust swarms.

Words meanings summery:

• अद्भुतः (adbhutaḥ) - wonderful, astonishing, amazing

• च (ca) - and (and, also, moreover)

• विचित्रः (vicitraḥ) - diverse, varied (varied, diverse, wonderful, strange)

• च (ca) - and (and, also, moreover)

• तेषाम् (teṣām) - of the monkey leaders and their troops (of them)

• आसीत् (āsīt) - he/she/it was, there was

• समागमः (samāgamaḥ) - the gathering of the monkeys (assembly, gathering, confluence, meeting)

• तत्र (tatra) - in that gathering place (there, in that place)

• वानरसैन्यानाम् (vānarasainyānām) - of the monkey armies

• शलभानाम् (śalabhānām) - of locusts, of grasshoppers, of moths

• इव (iva) - like, as, as if

• उद्गमः (udgamaḥ) - the rising up/emergence (of the armies) (rising, emergence, ascent, origin)

Words meanings and morphology

अद्भुतः (adbhutaḥ) - wonderful, astonishing, amazing

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of adbhuta

adbhuta - wonderful, astonishing, amazing, marvelous

Root: bhū (class 1)

च (ca) - and (and, also, moreover)

(indeclinable)

विचित्रः (vicitraḥ) - diverse, varied (varied, diverse, wonderful, strange)

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of vicitra

vicitra - varied, diverse, variegated, wonderful, strange

Prefix: vi

Root: cit (class 1)

च (ca) - and (and, also, moreover)

(indeclinable)

तेषाम् (teṣām) - of the monkey leaders and their troops (of them)

(pronoun)

Genitive, masculine, plural of tad

tad - that, those

आसीत् (āsīt) - he/she/it was, there was

(verb)

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

imperfect active 3rd singular

Imperfect tense, parasmaipada, 3rd person singular of root as.

Root: as (class 2)

समागमः (samāgamaḥ) - the gathering of the monkeys (assembly, gathering, confluence, meeting)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of samāgama

samāgama - assembly, meeting, coming together, confluence

From root gam (to go) with prefixes sam and ā.

Prefixes: sam+ā

Root: gam (class 1)

तत्र (tatra) - in that gathering place (there, in that place)

(indeclinable)

वानरसैन्यानाम् (vānarasainyānām) - of the monkey armies

(noun)

Genitive, neuter, plural of vānarasainya

vānarasainya - monkey army, army of monkeys

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (vānara+sainya)

• vānara – monkey, ape
  noun (masculine)
  Root: van (class 1)
• sainya – army, host, military
  noun (neuter)
  Derived from senā (army).

शलभानाम् (śalabhānām) - of locusts, of grasshoppers, of moths

(noun)

Genitive, masculine, plural of śalabha

śalabha - locust, grasshopper, moth, butterfly

Root: śal (class 1)

इव (iva) - like, as, as if

(indeclinable)

उद्गमः (udgamaḥ) - the rising up/emergence (of the armies) (rising, emergence, ascent, origin)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of udgama

udgama - rising, emergence, ascent, origin

From root gam (to go) with prefix ud.

Prefix: ud

Root: gam (class 1)

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