योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-6, chapter-23, verse-12

वपुःखण्डाभिपतितं शाखामृगमिवोदितम् ।
न चञ्चलं मनो यस्य तं मृत्युर्न जिघांसति ॥ १२ ॥

vapuḥkhaṇḍābhipatitaṃ śākhāmṛgamivoditam ,
na cañcalaṃ mano yasya taṃ mṛtyurna jighāṃsati 12

12. vapuḥ-khaṇḍa-abhipatitam śākhā-mṛgam iva uditam
na cañcalam manaḥ yasya tam mṛtyuḥ na jighāṃsati

12. yasya manaḥ na cañcalam,
tam mṛtyuḥ na jighāṃsati.
[yathā] vapuḥ-khaṇḍa-abhipatitam iva uditam śākhā-mṛgam [pīḍayati]

12. Death does not desire to kill him whose mind is not fickle, unlike an agitated monkey violently assailed as if by fragments of its own body.

Words meanings summery:

• वपुः-खण्ड-अभिपतितम् (vapuḥ-khaṇḍa-abhipatitam) - violently assailed as if by fragments of its own body (describing extreme distress) (assailed by fragments of the body, falling in fragments, shattered, distressed by body parts)

• शाखा-मृगम् (śākhā-mṛgam) - monkey (lit. 'branch-animal')

• इव (iva) - like, as, as if, similar to

• उदितम् (uditam) - agitated, stirred up (agitated, risen, appeared, spoken)

• न (na) - not, no

• चञ्चलम् (cañcalam) - fickle, unsteady, restless, tremulous

• मनः (manaḥ) - mind, intellect, heart, consciousness

• यस्य (yasya) - whose, of which

• तम् (tam) - him, that

• मृत्युः (mṛtyuḥ) - the personification of death (death, Yama (the god of death))

• न (na) - not, no

• जिघांसति (jighāṁsati) - desires to kill, seeks to kill

Words meanings and morphology

वपुः-खण्ड-अभिपतितम् (vapuḥ-khaṇḍa-abhipatitam) - violently assailed as if by fragments of its own body (describing extreme distress) (assailed by fragments of the body, falling in fragments, shattered, distressed by body parts)

(adjective)

Accusative, masculine, singular of vapuḥ-khaṇḍa-abhipatita

vapuḥ-khaṇḍa-abhipatita - assailed by body fragments, fallen upon by parts of the body

Tatpurusha compound: 'vapus' (body) + 'khaṇḍa' (fragment) + 'abhipatita' (fallen upon/assailed)

Compound type : tatpurusha (vapus+khaṇḍa+abhipatita)

• vapus – body, form, figure
  noun (neuter)
• khaṇḍa – piece, fragment, portion
  noun (neuter)
• abhipatita – fallen upon, assailed, attacked, afflicted
  adjective
  Past Passive Participle
  Formed from root pat with upasarga abhi
  Prefix: abhi
  Root: pat (class 1)

शाखा-मृगम् (śākhā-mṛgam) - monkey (lit. 'branch-animal')

(noun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of śākhā-mṛga

śākhā-mṛga - monkey (literally 'branch-animal')

Tatpurusha compound: 'śākhā' (branch) + 'mṛga' (animal)

Compound type : tatpurusha (śākhā+mṛga)

• śākhā – branch, bough
  noun (feminine)
• mṛga – animal, deer, wild beast
  noun (masculine)

इव (iva) - like, as, as if, similar to

(indeclinable)

उदितम् (uditam) - agitated, stirred up (agitated, risen, appeared, spoken)

(adjective)

Accusative, masculine, singular of udita

udita - risen, appeared, agitated, spoken, said

Past Passive Participle

From root 'īr' (to stir, to move) with upasarga 'ud', or 'ud-i' (to rise)

Prefix: ud

Root: īr (class 1)

न (na) - not, no

(indeclinable)

चञ्चलम् (cañcalam) - fickle, unsteady, restless, tremulous

(adjective)

Nominative, neuter, singular of cañcala

cañcala - fickle, unsteady, restless, tremulous, moving

Root: cal (class 1)

मनः (manaḥ) - mind, intellect, heart, consciousness

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of manas

manas - mind, intellect, heart, consciousness, thought

Root: man (class 4)

यस्य (yasya) - whose, of which

(pronoun)

Genitive, masculine, singular of yad

yad - who, which, what, that

तम् (tam) - him, that

(pronoun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of tad

tad - that, he, she, it

मृत्युः (mṛtyuḥ) - the personification of death (death, Yama (the god of death))

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of mṛtyu

mṛtyu - death, demise, the god of death

Root: mṛ (class 6)

न (na) - not, no

(indeclinable)

जिघांसति (jighāṁsati) - desires to kill, seeks to kill

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, present (lat) of jighāṃsati

Desiderative

Desiderative form of the root han, conjugated in 3rd person singular present active

Root: han (class 2)