योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-7, chapter-107, verse-5

केशोण्ड्रकनदीवाहधूमालीमौक्तिकादिवत् ।
यत्नं कचति तत्रास्ति नानुभूतेऽपि वस्तुता ॥ ५ ॥

keśoṇḍrakanadīvāhadhūmālīmauktikādivat ,
yatnaṃ kacati tatrāsti nānubhūte'pi vastutā 5

5. keśoṇḍrakanadīvāhadhūmālīmauktikādivat yatnam
kacati tatra asti na anubhūte api vastutā

5. keśoṇḍrakanadīvāhadhūmālīmauktikādivat yatra
yatnam kacati tatra vastutā na asti api anubhūte

5. Just like hair-worms, the flow of a mirage-river, a line of smoke, or illusory pearls, wherever such an appearance arises, there is no reality (vastutā) even in what is experienced.

5. כמו ראיית רשת נימים בעין, זרימת נהר מדומה, תימרות עשן או מחרוזת פנינים מדומה - אף על פי שזה נראה ונחווה, אין בזה כל מציאות ממשית.

Words meanings summery:

• केशोण्ड्रकनदीवाहधूमालीमौक्तिकादिवत् (keśoṇḍrakanadīvāhadhūmālīmauktikādivat) - like hair-worms, the flow of mirage-rivers, smoke-mirages, pearls, and so on

• यत्नम् (yatnam) - appearance, manifestation (as if an object of perception) (effort, exertion, appearance, manifestation)

• कचति (kacati) - appears, shines, manifests

• तत्र (tatra) - there, in that place

• अस्ति (asti) - is, exists

• न (na) - not, no

• अनुभूते (anubhūte) - in what is experienced, in the experienced

• अपि (api) - even, also

• वस्तुता (vastutā) - reality, substantiality, true nature

Words meanings and morphology

केशोण्ड्रकनदीवाहधूमालीमौक्तिकादिवत् (keśoṇḍrakanadīvāhadhūmālīmauktikādivat) - like hair-worms, the flow of mirage-rivers, smoke-mirages, pearls, and so on

(indeclinable)

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (keśoṇḍraka+nadīvāha+dhūmālī+mauktika+ādi+vat)

• keśoṇḍraka – hair-worm, speck before the eyes (visual illusion)
  noun (masculine)
• nadīvāha – river-flow (referring to a mirage)
  noun (masculine)
• dhūmālī – line of smoke, smoke-mirage
  noun (feminine)
• mauktika – pearl (here, referring to illusory pearls)
  noun (neuter)
• ādi – beginning, and so on, etcetera
  noun (masculine)
• vat – like, as, similar to
  indeclinable

यत्नम् (yatnam) - appearance, manifestation (as if an object of perception) (effort, exertion, appearance, manifestation)

(noun)

Accusative, masculine, singular of yatna

yatna - effort, exertion, endeavor; appearance, manifestation

कचति (kacati) - appears, shines, manifests

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, present indicative (laṭ) of kac

Root: kac (class 1)

तत्र (tatra) - there, in that place

(indeclinable)

अस्ति (asti) - is, exists

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, present indicative (laṭ) of as

Root: as (class 2)

न (na) - not, no

(indeclinable)

अनुभूते (anubhūte) - in what is experienced, in the experienced

(adjective)

Locative, neuter, singular of anubhūta

anubhūta - experienced, perceived

Past Passive Participle

Derived from anu-bhū (to experience)

Prefix: anu

Root: bhū (class 1)

अपि (api) - even, also

(indeclinable)

वस्तुता (vastutā) - reality, substantiality, true nature

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of vastutā

vastutā - reality, substantiality, true nature, existence

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