Buddhacarita 1.73

Question 1

What is the main verb of the stanza?

Answer 1

ādhāsyati

sya+ti = future tense, 3rd pers. Sg

Qualifies the datives in the beginning of the stanza.

Question 2

Analyse the compound:
rāgāgninā [ayam]

Answer 2

‘Fire is passion’
‘By the fire of passion’

karmadhāraya of comparison (i.e. metaphor)

Rāga+ agninā
agninā = instrumental case (of agni)

Question 3

Analyse compound:
viṣayendhanena

Answer 3

Whose fuel (the fire of passion) is the sense-based pleasures.

Whose fuel is sensual enjoyments.

Instr. In agreement with rāgāgninā (Instr. Sg).

viṣayendhanena (Instr. Sg) = Bahuvrīhi compound which is qualifying rāgāgninā.
indhana (ntr.) = kindling, lighting; fuel.
viṣaya = The object of the senses [organs]; sensual enjoyments (pl.)

Question 4

{{vidahyamānāya janāya} loke rāg|āgnin||āyaṃ viṣay|endhanena}।

prahlādam ādhāsyati dharma|vṛṣṭyā {vṛṣṭyā mahā|megha iv|ātap|ānte}

List all the Instrumentals

Answer 4

1. rāgāninā (fem.)
2. viṣayendhanena

Question 5

{{vidahyamānāya janāya} loke rāg|āgnin||āyaṃ viṣay|endhanena}।

prahlādam ādhāsyati dharma|vṛṣṭyā {vṛṣṭyā mahā|megha iv|ātap|ānte}

List the locatives.

Answer 5

1. loke (In the world)
2. iv|ātap|ānte

Question 6

{{vidahyamānāya janāya} loke rāg|āgnin||āyaṃ viṣay|endhanena}।

prahlādam ādhāsyati dharma|vṛṣṭyā {vṛṣṭyā mahā|megha iv|ātap|ānte}

List the compounds.

Answer 6

1. rāg|āgninā : (Instr.) Karmadharaya (metaphor)
2. viṣay|endhanena : (Instr.) Bahuvrihi qualifying ‘fire of passion’
3. dharma|vṛṣṭyā : (Instr Sing); karmadhāraya of comparison/metaphor ‘the rain that is Dharma’
4. mahā|megha : (Nom. Sg) Descriptive karmadharaya.
5. ātapānte : (Loc Sg) tatpuruṣa compound ‘end of summer heat’. ‘ānta of ātapa’

ātapa = (masc.) ‘heat (especially of the sun), sunshine,’