Exercises: General Rules

Vocabulary

गम्

गच्छति

go

जगत्

mfn

moving, movable, living

जगत्

n

the world, the earth

Translation

Translate from Sanskrit to English.

• वागर्थाविव संपृक्तौ वागर्थप्रतिपत्तये ।
  जगतः पितरौ वन्दे पार्वतीपरमेश्वरौ ॥
• वसुदेवसुतं देवं कंसचाणूरमर्दनम् ।
  देवकीपरमानन्दं कृष्णं वन्दे जगद्गुरुम् ॥
• ब्रह्म सत्यं जगन् मिथ्या जीवो ब्रह्मैव नापरः ।

Answers

Translation

• For the sake of perceiving words and their meanings, I salute Parvati and the Supreme Lord,
  the parents of the world, who are united like words and their meanings. Raghuvaṃśa 1.1
• I salute Krishna the divine son of Vasudeva, pulverizer of Kamsa and Canura, the supreme joy of Devakī, the guru of the world. Gītādhyānam 5
• Brahman is truth. The world is false. The jīva is Brahman and nothing else.