ग्रामाण्यखिलराष्ट्राणि देशान्तर्गहनानि च । एवं भूमण्डलं भ्रान्त्वा न कुतश्चित्स कानिचित् ॥ १४ ॥
grāmāṇyakhilarāṣṭrāṇi dēśāntargahanāni ca | ēvaṁ bhūmaṇḍalaṁ bhrāntvā na kutaścitsa kānicit || 14 ||
Translation
villages, all the kingdoms, and the thickets within the lands; having wandered so over the whole earth, he found nowhere any
Word by word
- grāmāṇi
- villages
- akhila
- all
- rāṣṭrāṇi
- the kingdoms
- dēśa
- the lands
- antar
- (antaḥ) within
- gahanāni
- the thickets
- ca
- and
- ēvaṁ
- so
- bhū
- earth
- maṇḍalaṁ
- the whole
- bhrāntvā
- having wandered
- na
- not
- kutaścit
- nowhere
- sa
- (saḥ) he
- kānicit
- any
Meaning
The sentence runs on into the next verse: he found none of the brahmin's actions. The list ends at villages and thickets, the smallest places, after the largest; the search was complete.