Shloka 60

बक-गौतमाख्यानम् / The Baka–Gautama Account

On Gratitude and Friendship Ethics

Devanagari script

भूमिं केचित्‌ प्रविविशु: पर्वतानपरे तथा

Transliteration

bhūmiṁ kecit praviviśuḥ parvatān apare tathā

Translation

قال بهيشما: «فمنهم من انغمس في الأرض، ومنهم من انغمس كذلك في الجبال.»

Word by Word

• भूमिम्: the earth/ground
• भूमिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूमि
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• केचित्: some (persons)
• केचित्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: क- (किम्) + चित्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• प्रविविशुः: entered
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + विश्
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• पर्वतान्: mountains
• पर्वतान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पर्वत
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• अपरे: others
• अपरे: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अपर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• तथा: likewise/also
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhūmi (Earth)
• Parvata (Mountains)
• Bhīṣma

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores the diversity of outcomes that beings experience—symbolically ‘entering’ earth or mountains—pointing to the working of karma and the inevitability of dissolution according to one’s destined course within dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma is recounting a description in which different beings vanish or meet their end in different ways—some into the earth, others into mountains—serving as an illustrative detail within a broader discourse on conduct, consequence, and the order governing life and death.