The Brahmin and the Mongoose: Verse 4

Question 1

anantaram

Answer 1

‘Just then’
‘immediately afterwards’
‘then’

adverbial accusative.

Having no interstice, uninterrupted, unbroken, continuous, immediately adjoining…

Question 2

āgamya

governs saṛpaḥ

Answer 2

‘having come’

Gerund

saṛpaḥ is the grammatical subject of the main verb.
āgamya = Gerund ending in -ya NOT -tvā because if a verb root is preceded by a prepositional prefix, the suffix of the gerund will be -ya-.
*compounded verb.

Question 3

samīpam

Answer 3

‘in the vicinity’

Acc. Sg. Ntr

samīpa (n.) = nearness, proximity, vicinity, presence. With the GEn = to, towards.

Question 4

bālasya

Answer 4

‘of the child’

Gen. Masc. Sg

Could also be ‘in the child’s vicinity’.

Question 5

ekaḥ saṛpaḥ

Answer 5

‘one snake’
‘a serpent’
‘one serpent’

Nom. Masc. Sg

ekaḥ = pronominal adjective, agreeing with saṛpaḥ
saṛpaḥ = grammatical subject of the 3 verbs in the sentence.

Question 6

dṛṣṭaḥ

PPP - agrees with saṛpaḥ

Answer 6

‘having been seen’
‘having seen’
‘was seen’

Nom. Masc. Sg (main verb of the clause)

√dṛś = to see, behold, look at, to see with the mind, learn, understand.

Question 7

ca

Answer 7

‘and’

copulative conjunction

Question 8

vyāpāditaḥ

main verb of clause

Answer 8

‘killed’
‘caused to perish’
‘caused to die’

Nom. Masc. Sg. - PPP causative

ppp causative of vyā - √pad (4 class). -> vyāpādayati = ‘s/he cuases to perish; kills’.
vy-ā-pad = perish, be lost, fail, death.

Question 9

nakulena

Answer 9

‘by the mongoose’

Instr. Masc. Sg

agent of dṛṣṭaḥ

Question 10

anantaram ekaḥ saṛpaḥ bālasya samīpan āgamya nakulena dṛṣṭaḥ vyāpāditaḥ ca |

Answer 10

‘Just then / immediately afterwards, a snake came into the vicinity of the boy, it was seen and killed by the Mongoose.’