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Bhima-
VANA PARVA
 
171
 

Through our obedience to you, our

kingdom has been snatched away before

our very eyes. Saying 'Dharma, Dharma',

you emaciate yourself with austerities.

The special Dharma of a Kshatriya is

bodily strength. Swerving from one's

Dharma is not praiseworthy for men.

Therefore, king, may you
decide upon.

killing our foes."
 

 
युधिष्ठिरः-

'धर्मस्य जानमानोऽहं गतिमग्र्यां सुदुर्विदाम् ।

कथं बलात्करिष्यामि मेरोरिव विवर्तनम् ॥
 

Yudhisthira
 

"Knowing as I do the lofty and very

inscrutable way of Dharma, how can I force

Dharma any more than turn the Meru round?
 

 
'राजानः पार्थिवाश्चैव येऽस्माभिरुपतापिताः ।

ते श्रिताः कौरवं पक्षं जातस्नेहाश्च सांप्रतम् ।

अशक्यो ह्यसहायेन हन्तुं दुर्योधनस्त्वया ॥