Shloka 60

Devanagari script

गति परमिकां प्राप्तमजानन्तो नूयोनय: । नापश्यन्‌ गच्छमान हि त॑ सार्थमृषिपुड्रवै:

Transliteration

gatiṁ paramikāṁ prāptam ajānanto nūyona yaḥ | nāpaśyan gacchamānaṁ hi taṁ sārtham ṛṣipuṅgavaiḥ ||

Translation

サञ्जयは言った。「彼が至上の道に到ったことを知らず、人々は嘆き悲しんだ。というのも、最勝の聖仙たちでさえ、軍勢の長が去りゆくさまを見とどけ得なかったからである—その逝去は、常の眼と理解を超えていた。」

Word by Word

गतिम्course; state; path

परमिकाम्supreme; highest

प्राप्तम्having reached; attained

अजानन्तःnot knowing

नूनम्surely; indeed

अयोनयःthose of improper origin; ignoble ones

नnot

अपश्यन्saw

गच्छमानम्going; proceeding

हिindeed; for

तम्him; that one

सार्थम्caravan; company; group

ऋषिsage

पुत्रवत्like a son; as (one’s) son

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Ṛ

ṛṣipuṅgava (foremost sages)

tam (a departing person/leader of the host, unnamed in this pāda)

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse contrasts limited human perception with a ‘supreme destiny’ (paramikā gati). Ethical insight: grief often arises from ignorance of a person’s true end; higher realization may render a departure invisible to ordinary senses, suggesting that spiritual attainment transcends common measures of loss.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that people lament because they do not understand that the departed one has reached the highest state. Even eminent sages do not ‘see’ him going—his departure is portrayed as subtle or beyond normal observation, emphasizing the extraordinary nature of his end.