महाभारतः mahābhārataḥ - book-12, chapter-168, verse-15

यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महोदधौ ।
समेत्य च व्यपेयातां तद्वद्भूतसमागमः ॥१५॥

15. yathā kāṣṭhaṁ ca kāṣṭhaṁ ca sameyātāṁ mahodadhau ,
sametya ca vyapeyātāṁ tadvadbhūtasamāgamaḥ.

15. yathā kāṣṭham ca kāṣṭham ca sameyātām mahodadhau
| sametya ca vyapeyātām tadvat bhūtasamāgamaḥ

15. yathā ca kāṣṭham ca kāṣṭham sameyātām mahodadhau
ca sametya vyapeyātām tadvat bhūtasamāgamaḥ

15. Just as one log and another log might come together in the great ocean, and having come together, they subsequently drift apart; similarly, is the coming together of living beings (bhūtasamāgama).

Words meanings summery:

• यथा (yathā) - Just as (as, just as, according to)

• काष्ठम् (kāṣṭham) - a log (wood, log, piece of wood)

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• काष्ठम् (kāṣṭham) - another log (wood, log, piece of wood)

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• समेयाताम् (sameyātām) - they might come together (they two might meet, should meet)

• महोदधौ (mahodadhau) - in the great ocean

• समेत्य (sametya) - having come together (having met, having come together)

• च (ca) - and (and, also)

• व्यपेयाताम् (vyapeyātām) - they subsequently drift apart (they two might separate)

• तद्वत् (tadvat) - similarly (like that, similarly, in the same way)

• भूतसमागमः (bhūtasamāgamaḥ) - the coming together of living beings (bhūtasamāgama) (coming together of beings, assemblage of elements)

Words meanings and morphology

यथा (yathā) - Just as (as, just as, according to)

(indeclinable)

काष्ठम् (kāṣṭham) - a log (wood, log, piece of wood)

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of kāṣṭha

kāṣṭha - wood, log, timber, piece of wood

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

Note: Conjunction

काष्ठम् (kāṣṭham) - another log (wood, log, piece of wood)

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of kāṣṭha

kāṣṭha - wood, log, timber, piece of wood

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

Note: Conjunction

समेयाताम् (sameyātām) - they might come together (they two might meet, should meet)

(verb)

3rd person , dual, active, optative (vidhiliṅ) of sam-i

Optative Active

root i (to go) with prefix sam, Optative, 3rd person dual, active voice

Prefix: sam

Root: i (class 2)

Note: Dual subject (two logs)

महोदधौ (mahodadhau) - in the great ocean

(noun)

Locative, masculine, singular of mahodadhi

mahodadhi - great ocean, sea

Compound type : karmadhāraya (mahā+udadhi)

• mahā – great, large, mighty
  adjective (feminine)
• udadhi – ocean, sea, receptacle of water
  noun (masculine)

समेत्य (sametya) - having come together (having met, having come together)

(indeclinable)

Gerund (absolutive)

root i (to go) with prefix sam

Prefix: sam

Root: i (class 2)

Note: Formed from 'sam-i' + -tya suffix

च (ca) - and (and, also)

(indeclinable)

Note: Conjunction

व्यपेयाताम् (vyapeyātām) - they subsequently drift apart (they two might separate)

(verb)

3rd person , dual, active, optative (vidhiliṅ) of vyap-i

Optative Active

root i (to go) with prefixes vi and apa, Optative, 3rd person dual, active voice

Prefixes: vi+apa

Root: i (class 2)

Note: Dual subject (two logs)

तद्वत् (tadvat) - similarly (like that, similarly, in the same way)

(indeclinable)

from tad (that) with suffix -vat

भूतसमागमः (bhūtasamāgamaḥ) - the coming together of living beings (bhūtasamāgama) (coming together of beings, assemblage of elements)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of bhūtasamāgama

bhūtasamāgama - assemblage of beings/elements, meeting of creatures

Compound type : tatpurusha (bhūta+samāgama)

• bhūta – being, creature, element
  noun (neuter)
  Past Passive Participle
  from root bhū (to be)
  Root: bhū (class 1)
• samāgama – coming together, meeting, conjunction
  noun (masculine)
  from sam-ā-gam (to come together)
  Prefixes: sam+ā
  Root: gam (class 1)