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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.67.26

चकम्पे तेन पतता सटङ्क: सवनस्पति: । पर्वत: कुरुशार्दूल वायुना नौरिवाम्भसि ॥ २६ ॥
cakampe tena patatā
[chakampe tena patataa]
sa-ṭaṅkaḥ sa-vanaspatiḥ
[sa-tankah sa-vanaspatih]
parvataḥ kuru-śārdūla
[parvatah kuru-shaardoola]
vāyunā naur ivāmbhasi
[vaayunaa naur ivaambhasi]
cakampe — shook tena — because of him patatā — as he fell sa — together with ṭaṅkaḥ — its cliffs sa — together with vanaspatiḥ — its trees parvataḥ — the mountain kuru - śārdūla — O tiger among the Kurus (Parīkṣit Mahārāja) vāyunā — by the wind nauḥ — a boat iva — as if ambhasi — on the water .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
cakampe tena patatā
cakampe
shook
tena
because of him
patatā
as he fell
sa-ṭaṅkaḥ sa-vanaspatiḥ
sa
together with
ṭaṅkaḥ
its cliffs
sa
together with
vanaspatiḥ
its trees
parvataḥ kuru-śārdūla
parvataḥ
the mountain
kuru - śārdūla
O tiger among the Kurus (Parīkṣit Mahārāja)
vāyunā naur ivāmbhasi
vāyunā
by the wind
nauḥ
a boat
iva
as if
ambhasi
on the water .
  • cakampe — (the mountain) shook
    Perfect of √kamp (to tremble). The same root as kampayan in v.11 (the demon shaking trees). The verse mirrors v.11 verbatim in verb-root: he who shook the trees now shakes the mountain in falling. Sound-pattern as karmic accounting.
  • parvataḥ — the mountain
    Raivataka — already named in v.8. The mountain has framed the entire episode, song to slaying. Sthāna participates in līlā; the geography is not a backdrop but a character.
  • vāyunā-nauḥ-iva-ambhasi — like a boat by wind upon water
    Simile: vāyu (wind) + nau (boat) + ambhas (water). Even a mountain is, before Bhagavān, as light as a wind-tossed boat. Gauḍīyas note the structural inversion: ordinarily mountains are stability, boats are instability; here mountain becomes boat at His touch.
  • kuru-śārdūla — O tiger among the Kurus
    Compound vocative: Kuru + śārdūla (tiger). Śuka addressing Parīkṣit. The endearment-vocative inside narrative is a Bhāgavatam signature: the speaker keeps reaching for the hearer even in the middle of the tale, so that śravaṇa never goes cold.
  • sa-ṭaṅkaḥ-sa-vanaspatiḥ — with its cliffs and trees
    Compound: sa- (along with) + ṭaṅka (cliff) + vanaspati (tree). The fall is total; even the parts of the mountain are named because each suffered the tremor. Bhāgavatam's habit of detailing the body of a scene rather than abstracting it.
When he fell, O tiger among the Kurus, Raivataka Mountain shook, along with its cliffs and trees, like a wind-tossed boat at sea.

The word ṭaṅka here indicates not only the mountain cliffs but also the fissures and other spots where water had accumulated. All these mountainous areas shook and trembled when Dvivida fell.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
When he fell, O tiger among the Kurus, Raivataka Mountain shook, along with its cliffs and trees, like a wind-tossed boat at sea.
Commentary

Raivataka mountain with its trees and cliffs began to shake. Tanka according to the last portion of Amarasimha’s Trikanda dictionary means leg, wall of a mountain, shovel, stone chisel or a type of wild fruit.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

When he fell the cliffs shook. Taṅka means a hole with water. This indicates there were floods of water. It means the wall of a mountain according to Tri-kāṇda-śeṣa. The walls enclosed water.

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

The mountain shook at its very roots. The example indicates this. O tiger of the Kurus! Even in the Mahābhārata war this did not happen. He speaks in astonishment.

Concepts
Jiva
Dvivida falls and the mountain shakes. The collapse of evil reverberates through creation — when one wicked center falls, much around it trembles in relief.
Reflection Questions
  • What in my life has fallen recently whose collapse actually freed surrounding things?
  • Where might letting something fall be the kindest service I could perform?

Raivataka — the mountain that drew Dvivida by song (v.8) — trembles at his fall like a boat tossed on water. The geography itself responds: when Bhagavān slays an asura, the earth registers it bodily, the way a household stirs when a long-running disturbance finally ends.

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