योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-3, chapter-35, verse-6

मीनव्यूहविनिष्क्रान्तशरबीजौघसर्षपः ।
हेतिवीचीवरालूनपताकावीचिमण्डलः ॥ ६ ॥

mīnavyūhaviniṣkrāntaśarabījaughasarṣapaḥ ,
hetivīcīvarālūnapatākāvīcimaṇḍalaḥ 6

6. mīnavyūhaviniṣkrāntaśarabījaughasarṣapaḥ
hetivīcīvālūnapatākāvīcimaṇḍalaḥ

6. mīnavyūhaviniṣkrāntaśarabījaughasarṣapaḥ
hetivīcīvālūnapatākāvīcimaṇḍalaḥ

6. Where streams of arrows, resembling mustard seeds, emerge from battle formations like schools of fish, and where multitudes of banner-waves are torn apart by waves of weapons.

6. מתוך מערך הָמִינַה (מערך הקרב בדמות דג) נורו החצים כגרגירי חרדל זעירים, וגלי הנשק קרעו את הדגלים הצפים על הפנים.

Words meanings summery:

• मीनव्यूहविनिष्क्रान्तशरबीजौघसर्षपः (mīnavyūhaviniṣkrāntaśarabījaughasarṣapaḥ) - describing the battle as having floods of arrow-seeds, like mustard seeds, emerging from battle arrays resembling fish formations (where floods of arrow-seeds like mustard seeds emerge from fish-formations)

• हेतिवीचीवालूनपताकावीचिमण्डलः (hetivīcīvālūnapatākāvīcimaṇḍalaḥ) - describing the battle as having banner-waves cut down as if by weapon-waves (whose multitudes of banner-waves are torn down by weapon-waves)

Words meanings and morphology

मीनव्यूहविनिष्क्रान्तशरबीजौघसर्षपः (mīnavyūhaviniṣkrāntaśarabījaughasarṣapaḥ) - describing the battle as having floods of arrow-seeds, like mustard seeds, emerging from battle arrays resembling fish formations (where floods of arrow-seeds like mustard seeds emerge from fish-formations)

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of mīnavyūhaviniṣkrāntaśarabījaughasarṣapa

mīnavyūhaviniṣkrāntaśarabījaughasarṣapa - characterized by floods of arrow-seeds resembling mustard seeds emerging from fish-like formations

Compound type : Bahuvrihi (mīnavyūha+viniṣkrānta+śarabījaugha+sarṣapa)

• mīna – fish
  noun (masculine)
• vyūha – formation, array, multitude
  noun (masculine)
  Prefix: vi
  Root: √ūh (class 1)
• viniṣkrānta – emerged, issued forth
  participle (masculine)
  Past Passive Participle
  Derived from verb √kram (to step, go) with prefixes vi and ni.
  Prefixes: vi+nis
  Root: √kram (class 1)
• śara – arrow
  noun (masculine)
• bīja – seed, origin
  noun (neuter)
• ogha – flood, stream, multitude
  noun (masculine)
• sarṣapa – mustard seed
  noun (masculine)

Note: This entire compound is an adjective modifying an implied noun like 'the battlefield' or 'the ocean of battle'.

हेतिवीचीवालूनपताकावीचिमण्डलः (hetivīcīvālūnapatākāvīcimaṇḍalaḥ) - describing the battle as having banner-waves cut down as if by weapon-waves (whose multitudes of banner-waves are torn down by weapon-waves)

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of hetivīcīvālūnapatākāvīcimaṇḍala

hetivīcīvālūnapatākāvīcimaṇḍala - characterized by masses of banner-waves being cut down by waves of weapons

Compound type : Bahuvrihi (hetivīci+iva+ālūna+patākāvīci+maṇḍala)

• heti – weapon, missile
  noun (feminine)
• vīci – wave, ripple
  noun (feminine)
• iva – like, as if
  indeclinable
• ālūna – cut down, severed, torn
  participle (neuter)
  Past Passive Participle
  Derived from verb √lū (to cut) with prefix ā.
  Prefix: ā
  Root: √lū (class 9)
• patākā – banner, flag
  noun (feminine)
• vīci – wave, ripple
  noun (feminine)
• maṇḍala – circle, disc, multitude, mass
  noun (neuter)

Note: This entire compound is an adjective modifying an implied noun like 'the battlefield' or 'the ocean of battle'.

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