Mahabharata 3.147.49 — Vana Parva, Adhyaya 147, Shloka 49
Bhīmasena–Hanūmān Saṃvāda: The Tail Test and the Divine Path
भयाद् विससूजुर्भीमं शकृन्मूत्रं च सुखुवु: । प्रविवेश तत: क्षिप्रं तानपास्य महाबल:
bhayād visasūjur bhīmaṃ śakṛn-mūtraṃ ca sukhuvuḥ | praviveśa tataḥ kṣipraṃ tān apāsya mahābalaḥ ||
قال فايشَمبايانا: ومن شدة الخوف أفرغوا الغائط والبول بغير إرادة. ثم إن الجبار أسرع فدخل، دافعاً إياهم جانباً—صورةٌ تُبيّن كيف يجرّد الرعبُ المرءَ من كل مظهرٍ للاتزان حين يواجه قوةً طاغية.
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The verse underscores a psychological and ethical realism: fear can reduce even the proud to helplessness, revealing the fragility of outward dignity; true steadiness is tested not in comfort but under threat.
Those confronted by Bhīma are so terrified that they involuntarily void feces and urine; Bhīma, described as mahābala, swiftly enters and brushes past them.
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