Samhitā Verse Explainer

Open any śloka — word by word, with its commentary.

TIME
5–10 minutes per verse
BEST FOR
BAMS Second Year, Postgraduate, Faculty / Expert, Researcher
SOURCES
The classical texts, cited passage by passage

Paste a śloka: get IAST transliteration, word-by-word breakdown, translation, commentary context, and significance.

01A session

Watch it work.

  1. 1

    Paste the verse, in Devanāgarī or transliteration.

  2. 2

    The explainer identifies the verse where it can, renders IAST pāda by pāda, resolves the sandhi (padaccheda), gives the anvaya, and breaks it word by word with grammatical roles and meanings.

  3. 3

    It then translates, situates the verse within its chapter, names the metre, and keeps each commentator's reading apart from the mūla.

Samhitā Verse ExplainerLIVE DEMO
Caraka · Sū. 1.41

हिताहितं सुखं दुःखमायुस्तस्य हिताहितम्।

मानं च तच्च यत्रोक्तमायुर्वेदः स उच्यते॥

hitāhitaṃ sukhaṃ duḥkham āyus tasya hitāhitam |

mānaṃ ca tac ca yatroktam āyurvedaḥ sa ucyate ||

hitawholesomeahitaunwholesomesukhahappyduḥkhaunhappyāyuslifemānaits measure

02What sets it apart

Every layer of the verse

Devanāgarī, transliteration, sandhi-split, anvaya, word-by-word grammar, meaning and metre.

Commentators named

Cakrapāṇi, Ḍalhaṇa, Aruṇadatta — each gloss attributed, and kept apart from the mūla.

Knows where it's from

Identifies the text, sthāna and chapter — and says how sure it is.

Memorise it

Turn the verse into pāda-by-pāda cloze cards with one tap.

You bring

  • 01The verse text, in Devanāgarī or IAST
  • 02Optionally, where you met it — the text and chapter

You get

  • 01IAST transliteration, padaccheda and anvaya, with a word-by-word grammatical breakdown
  • 02A faithful translation and the verse's contextual meaning in its chapter
  • 03Named commentarial views (Cakrapāṇi, Ḍalhaṇa, Aruṇadatta) kept distinct from the mūla, plus theoretical or clinical significance

03The standard

“Mūla text and commentary from the classical library, with the two layers always kept apart; verse numbers and attributions are given only when the library can support them, and textual variants are noted only where the library carries them.”

Good to know

It will decline to guess a verse number or attribution it cannot support — that refusal is the feature working. Questions of variant readings and contested interpretation are precisely the ones that deserve faculty review.

Questions about Verse Explainer.

Can I paste in IAST or Devanāgarī?

Either works.

Will it invent a commentary?

No — commentaries are given only where they can be supported, and uncertainty is stated.

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