योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-7, chapter-93, verse-39

विषया विषवैषम्या वामाः कामविमोहदाः ।
रसाः सरसवैरस्या लुठन्नेषु न को हतः ॥ ३९ ॥

viṣayā viṣavaiṣamyā vāmāḥ kāmavimohadāḥ ,
rasāḥ sarasavairasyā luṭhanneṣu na ko hataḥ 39

39. viṣayāḥ viṣavaiṣamyāḥ vāmāḥ kāmavimohadāḥ
rasāḥ sarasavairasyāḥ luṭhat eṣu na kaḥ hataḥ

39. viṣayāḥ viṣavaiṣamyāḥ vāmāḥ kāmavimohadāḥ rasāḥ sarasavairasyāḥ (santi).
eṣu luṭhat kaḥ na hataḥ?

39. Sense objects (viṣaya) are like poison in their pernicious nature, unfavorable, and lead to delusion caused by desire. Their apparent attractions (rasa) are in fact devoid of true essence and insipid. Who, then, is not destroyed by wallowing in these?

Words meanings summery:

• विषयाः (viṣayāḥ) - sense objects, objects of enjoyment, spheres of activity

• विषवैषम्याः (viṣavaiṣamyāḥ) - having the perniciousness of poison, poisonous in their badness, having the unevenness of poison

• वामाः (vāmāḥ) - adverse, contrary, unfavorable, difficult

• कामविमोहदाः (kāmavimohadāḥ) - causing delusion due to desire, giving rise to infatuation from lust

• रसाः (rasāḥ) - tastes, essences, enjoyments, affections

• सरसवैरस्याः (sarasavairasyāḥ) - having the tastelessness/insipidness of essence, appearing juicy but being tasteless

• लुठत् (luṭhat) - wallowing, rolling, floundering, struggling

• एषु (eṣu) - in these (masculine/neuter)

• न (na) - not, no

• कः (kaḥ) - who?

• हतः (hataḥ) - killed, struck down, destroyed, smitten

Words meanings and morphology

विषयाः (viṣayāḥ) - sense objects, objects of enjoyment, spheres of activity

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, plural of viṣaya

viṣaya - object of sense, sphere, domain, subject-matter

Prefix: vi

Root: ṣī (class 7)

विषवैषम्याः (viṣavaiṣamyāḥ) - having the perniciousness of poison, poisonous in their badness, having the unevenness of poison

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, plural of viṣavaiṣamya

viṣavaiṣamya - having the perniciousness of poison, poisoned unevenness

Compound type : bahuvrīhi (viṣa+vaiṣamya)

• viṣa – poison, venom
  noun (neuter)
• vaiṣamya – unevenness, difficulty, disparity, malignity, perniciousness
  noun (neuter)
  Derived from viṣama (uneven, difficult)

वामाः (vāmāḥ) - adverse, contrary, unfavorable, difficult

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, plural of vāma

vāma - left, adverse, contrary, beautiful, lovely

कामविमोहदाः (kāmavimohadāḥ) - causing delusion due to desire, giving rise to infatuation from lust

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, plural of kāmavimohada

kāmavimohada - causing delusion by desire

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (kāma+vimoha+da)

• kāma – desire, lust, love, wish
  noun (masculine)
  Root: kam (class 1)
• vimoha – delusion, infatuation, bewilderment
  noun (masculine)
  Prefix: vi
  Root: muh (class 4)
• da – giving, granting, causing, bestowing
  adjective (masculine)
  Agent noun / Kṛt suffix
  Derived from root dā (to give)
  Root: dā (class 3)

रसाः (rasāḥ) - tastes, essences, enjoyments, affections

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, plural of rasa

rasa - juice, liquid, taste, essence, emotion, aesthetic sentiment

Root: ras (class 1)

सरसवैरस्याः (sarasavairasyāḥ) - having the tastelessness/insipidness of essence, appearing juicy but being tasteless

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, plural of sarasavairasya

sarasavairasya - having tastelessness despite apparent essence, insipidness of taste

Compound type : bahuvrīhi (sarasa+vairasya)

• sarasa – juicy, tasteful, elegant, full of emotion/essence
  adjective (masculine)
  Prefix: sa
• vairasya – tastelessness, insipidness, aversion, unpalatableness
  noun (neuter)
  Derived from virasa (tasteless)
  Prefix: vi

लुठत् (luṭhat) - wallowing, rolling, floundering, struggling

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of luṭhat

luṭhat - rolling, wallowing, floundering

Present Active Participle

Present active participle of root luṭh (to roll)

Root: luṭh (class 1)

Note: Implied subject is 'who' (kaḥ).

एषु (eṣu) - in these (masculine/neuter)

(pronoun)

Locative, masculine, plural of etad

etad - this (masculine/neuter)

न (na) - not, no

(indeclinable)

कः (kaḥ) - who?

(pronoun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of kim

kim - who?, what?, which?

हतः (hataḥ) - killed, struck down, destroyed, smitten

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of hata

hata - struck, killed, destroyed, harmed, gone

Past Passive Participle

Past passive participle of root han (to strike, kill)

Root: han (class 2)