योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-3, chapter-26, verse-27

निर्जराक्रन्दकारिण्यो मुक्ताम्बरपयोधराः ।
तप्तनिःश्वासविध्वस्ताः परं कार्श्यमिता दिशः ॥ २७ ॥

nirjarākrandakāriṇyo muktāmbarapayodharāḥ ,
taptaniḥśvāsavidhvastāḥ paraṃ kārśyamitā diśaḥ 27

27. nirjarākrandā-kāriṇyaḥ muktāmbara-payodharāḥ
tapta-niḥśvāsa-vidhvastaḥ param kārśyam itāḥ diśaḥ

27. diśaḥ nirjarākrandā-kāriṇyaḥ muktāmbara-payodharāḥ
tapta-niḥśvāsa-vidhvastaḥ param kārśyam itāḥ (santi)

27. The directions (personified as weeping women), making the waterfalls cry out, with their cloud-like garments loosened and their cloud-breasts depleted, and devastated by hot sighs, have become exceedingly thin.

27. ארבע רוחות השמיים, המקוננות ללא הרף, מעורטלות מאור ומוכות בנשיפות אנחה לוהטות, עוטות דלות וקודרות עמוקה.

Words meanings summery:

• निर्जराक्रन्दा-कारिण्यः (nirjarākrandā-kāriṇyaḥ) - making the waterfalls cry out (making the waterfalls lament/cry out)

• मुक्ताम्बर-पयोधराः (muktāmbara-payodharāḥ) - with their cloud-like garments loosened and their cloud-breasts depleted (whose cloud-garments are loosened and whose cloud-breasts are depleted)

• तप्त-निःश्वास-विध्वस्तः (tapta-niḥśvāsa-vidhvastaḥ) - devastated by hot sighs (distressed/destroyed by hot sighs)

• परम् (param) - exceedingly (exceedingly, greatly, supremely)

• कार्श्यम् (kārśyam) - thinness, emaciation (thinness, emaciation, weakness)

• इताः (itāḥ) - attained (become) (gone, attained, reached)

• दिशः (diśaḥ) - the directions (personified) (directions, quarters of the sky)

Words meanings and morphology

निर्जराक्रन्दा-कारिण्यः (nirjarākrandā-kāriṇyaḥ) - making the waterfalls cry out (making the waterfalls lament/cry out)

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, plural of nirjarākrandā-kāriṇī

nirjarākrandā-kāriṇī - causing the waterfalls to cry out/lament

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (nirjara+ākrandā+kāriṇī)

• nirjara – waterfall, cascade (also deity, immortal)
  noun (masculine)
• ākrandā – crying, lamentation, wailing
  noun (feminine)
  Prefix: ā
  Root: krand (class 1)
• kāriṇī – making, causing, doing (feminine agent)
  adjective (feminine)
  Agent noun from root kṛ (to do, make)
  Root: kṛ (class 8)

Note: Agrees with 'diśaḥ'

मुक्ताम्बर-पयोधराः (muktāmbara-payodharāḥ) - with their cloud-like garments loosened and their cloud-breasts depleted (whose cloud-garments are loosened and whose cloud-breasts are depleted)

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, plural of muktāmbara-payodhara

muktāmbara-payodhara - having loosened garments (clouds) and breasts (clouds)

Compound type : bahuvrīhi (mukta+ambara+payodhara)

• mukta – loosened, freed, released
  adjective (masculine)
  Past Passive Participle
  Root muc (to release) + ta (suffix)
  Root: muc (class 6)
• ambara – garment, sky, cloud
  noun (neuter)
• payodhara – cloud, breast (lit. water-bearer)
  noun (masculine)

Note: Agrees with 'diśaḥ'

तप्त-निःश्वास-विध्वस्तः (tapta-niḥśvāsa-vidhvastaḥ) - devastated by hot sighs (distressed/destroyed by hot sighs)

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, plural of tapta-niḥśvāsa-vidhvasta

tapta-niḥśvāsa-vidhvasta - destroyed/distressed by hot sighs

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (tapta+niḥśvāsa+vidhvasta)

• tapta – heated, hot, burning
  adjective (masculine)
  Past Passive Participle
  Root tap (to heat, suffer) + ta (suffix)
  Root: tap (class 1)
• niḥśvāsa – sigh, breath, exhalation
  noun (masculine)
  Prefix: nis
  Root: śvas (class 2)
• vidhvasta – destroyed, ruined, distressed
  adjective (masculine)
  Past Passive Participle
  Root dhvaṃs (to fall, destroy) with upasarga vi
  Prefix: vi
  Root: dhvaṃs (class 1)

Note: Agrees with 'diśaḥ'

परम् (param) - exceedingly (exceedingly, greatly, supremely)

(indeclinable)

कार्श्यम् (kārśyam) - thinness, emaciation (thinness, emaciation, weakness)

(noun)

Accusative, neuter, singular of kārśya

kārśya - thinness, emaciation, weakness, leanness

इताः (itāḥ) - attained (become) (gone, attained, reached)

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, plural of ita

ita - gone, attained, reached, passed

Past Passive Participle

Root i (to go) + ta (suffix)

Root: i (class 2)

Note: Agrees with 'diśaḥ'

दिशः (diśaḥ) - the directions (personified) (directions, quarters of the sky)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, plural of diś

diś - direction, quarter of the sky, region

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