योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-5, chapter-14, verse-6

कः शवं वा श्मशानस्थं समवायकथाशतम् ।
परिपृच्छति संदेहे कश्च मूर्खं प्रशास्ति च ॥ ६ ॥

kaḥ śavaṃ vā śmaśānasthaṃ samavāyakathāśatam ,
paripṛcchati saṃdehe kaśca mūrkhaṃ praśāsti ca 6

6. kaḥ śavam vā śmaśānastham samavāyakathāśatam
paripṛcchati saṃdehe kaḥ ca mūrkhaṃ praśāsti ca

6. kaḥ śavam vā śmaśānastham samavāyakathāśatam
saṃdehe paripṛcchati ca kaḥ mūrkhaṃ praśāsti ca

6. Who would question a corpse lying in a cremation ground about a hundred kinds of discussions, and who would instruct a fool?

Words meanings summery:

• कः (kaḥ) - who (who, what)

• शवम् (śavam) - a corpse (a corpse, dead body)

• वा (vā) - or (or, either...or)

• श्मशानस्थम् (śmaśānastham) - lying in a cremation ground (located in a cremation ground, situated in a cemetery)

• समवायकथाशतम् (samavāyakathāśatam) - a hundred kinds of discussions (a hundred discussions on concomitance, a hundred treatises on inherence)

• परिपृच्छति (paripṛcchati) - questions (questions, asks about, inquires)

• संदेहे (saṁdehe) - in doubt (in doubt, in uncertainty, in suspicion)

• कः (kaḥ) - who (who, what)

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• मूर्खं (mūrkhaṁ) - a fool (a fool, an ignorant person)

• प्रशास्ति (praśāsti) - instructs (instructs, teaches, governs, commands)

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

Words meanings and morphology

कः (kaḥ) - who (who, what)

(pronoun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of ka

ka - who, what

शवम् (śavam) - a corpse (a corpse, dead body)

(noun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of śava

śava - corpse, dead body

वा (vā) - or (or, either...or)

(indeclinable)

श्मशानस्थम् (śmaśānastham) - lying in a cremation ground (located in a cremation ground, situated in a cemetery)

(adjective)

Accusative, masculine, singular of śmaśānastha

śmaśānastha - located in a cremation ground

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (śmaśāna+stha)

• śmaśāna – cremation ground, cemetery
  noun (neuter)
• stha – standing, being, situated
  adjective (masculine)
  derived from root sthā
  kṛt suffix -a after root sthā
  Root: sthā (class 1)

समवायकथाशतम् (samavāyakathāśatam) - a hundred kinds of discussions (a hundred discussions on concomitance, a hundred treatises on inherence)

(noun)

Accusative, neuter, singular of samavāyakathāśata

samavāyakathāśata - a hundred stories/discussions about concomitance

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (samavāya+kathā+śata)

• samavāya – concomitance, inherence, union
  noun (masculine)
  Prefixes: sam+ava
• kathā – story, tale, discourse, discussion
  noun (feminine)
  Root: kath (class 10)
• śata – hundred
  noun (neuter)

परिपृच्छति (paripṛcchati) - questions (questions, asks about, inquires)

(verb)

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

Present active

3rd class verb with reduplication (pṛcch from prac), conjugated in present tense

Prefix: pari

Root: prac (class 6)

संदेहे (saṁdehe) - in doubt (in doubt, in uncertainty, in suspicion)

(noun)

Locative, masculine, singular of saṃdeha

saṁdeha - doubt, uncertainty, suspicion

Prefix: sam

Root: dih

कः (kaḥ) - who (who, what)

(pronoun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of ka

ka - who, what

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

मूर्खं (mūrkhaṁ) - a fool (a fool, an ignorant person)

(noun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of mūrkha

mūrkha - fool, ignorant, stupid

Root: mūrch (class 1)

प्रशास्ति (praśāsti) - instructs (instructs, teaches, governs, commands)

(verb)

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

Present active

Root śās (class 2) with prefix pra

Prefix: pra

Root: śās (class 2)

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)