योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-5, chapter-27, verse-6

इमा दिशो दिश इति चेत्यन्ते न चिता यदि ।
तत्किं नाम दिशां दिक्त्वं शैलानां चापि काद्रिता ॥ ६ ॥

imā diśo diśa iti cetyante na citā yadi ,
tatkiṃ nāma diśāṃ diktvaṃ śailānāṃ cāpi kādritā 6

6. imāḥ diśaḥ diśaḥ iti cetyante na citā yadi tat
kim nāma diśām diktvam śailānām ca api kādritā

6. yadi imāḥ diśaḥ iti diśaḥ citā na cetyante,
tat diśām diktvam kim nāma? ca api śailānām kādritā (kim nāma)?

6. If these directions are not recognized as 'directions' by consciousness (citā), then what indeed is the direction-ness (diktva) of the directions? And what also is the mountain-ness (kādritā) of the mountains (śaila)?

Words meanings summery:

• इमाः (imāḥ) - these (feminine plural)

• दिशः (diśaḥ) - directions

• दिशः (diśaḥ) - used predicatively, 'as directions' (directions)

• इति (iti) - meaning 'as' or 'called' (thus, so, indicating direct speech or thought)

• चेत्यन्ते (cetyante) - are perceived, are understood, are known

• न (na) - not, no

• चिता (citā) - by consciousness, by the mind

• यदि (yadi) - if

• तत् (tat) - then, therefore

• किम् (kim) - what, why

• नाम (nāma) - used as an emphatic or interrogative particle 'what indeed', 'what then is' (by name, indeed, what is called)

• दिशाम् (diśām) - of the directions

• दिक्त्वम् (diktvam) - direction-ness, the state of being a direction

• शैलानाम् (śailānām) - of the mountains

• च (ca) - and, also

• अपि (api) - also, even, too

• काद्रिता (kādritā) - mountain-ness, rock-ness

Words meanings and morphology

इमाः (imāḥ) - these (feminine plural)

(pronoun)

Nominative, feminine, plural of idam

idam - this, this one

दिशः (diśaḥ) - directions

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, plural of diś

diś - direction, quarter, region

दिशः (diśaḥ) - used predicatively, 'as directions' (directions)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, plural of diś

diś - direction, quarter, region

इति (iti) - meaning 'as' or 'called' (thus, so, indicating direct speech or thought)

(indeclinable)

चेत्यन्ते (cetyante) - are perceived, are understood, are known

(verb)

3rd person , plural, passive, present (lat) of cet

Present Passive

3rd person plural present passive of root cit (1P)

Root: cit (class 1)

न (na) - not, no

(indeclinable)

चिता (citā) - by consciousness, by the mind

(noun)

Instrumental, feminine, singular of cit

cit - consciousness, thought, mind

Root: cit (class 1)

यदि (yadi) - if

(indeclinable)

तत् (tat) - then, therefore

(indeclinable)

किम् (kim) - what, why

(indeclinable)

नाम (nāma) - used as an emphatic or interrogative particle 'what indeed', 'what then is' (by name, indeed, what is called)

(indeclinable)

दिशाम् (diśām) - of the directions

(noun)

Genitive, feminine, plural of diś

diś - direction, quarter, region

दिक्त्वम् (diktvam) - direction-ness, the state of being a direction

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of diktva

diktva - direction-ness, nature of direction

derived from diś + tva (suffix for abstract noun)

शैलानाम् (śailānām) - of the mountains

(noun)

Genitive, masculine, plural of śaila

śaila - mountain, rock, stone

च (ca) - and, also

(indeclinable)

अपि (api) - also, even, too

(indeclinable)

काद्रिता (kādritā) - mountain-ness, rock-ness

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of kadritā

kadritā - mountain-ness, rock-ness

Derived from adri (mountain) with the abstract suffix -tā, prefixed by an emphatic/interrogative 'ka'.