Shloka 85
Ulūka’s Provocation and Keśava’s Counter-Message (उलूकदूत्ये केशवप्रत्युत्तरम्)
कुले जातस्य शूरस्य परवित्तेष्वगृध्यत: । आशस्थितं राज्यमाक्रम्य कोपं कस्य न दीपयेत्
kule jātasya śūrasya paravitteṣv agṛdhyataḥ | āśsthitaṁ rājyam ākramya kopaṁ kasya na dīpayet ||
যে উত্তম কুলে জন্মেছে, বীর, এবং পরের ধনে লোভ করে না—তার ন্যায্য রাজ্য যদি কেউ দখল করে বসে থাকে, তবে কোন বীরের ক্রোধই বা তা জাগিয়ে তুলবে না?
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
A righteous warrior who does not covet others’ property is still naturally provoked when his own rightful sovereignty is forcibly usurped; the verse treats such anger as a response to adharma (injustice), not mere greed.
Sañjaya comments on the inevitability of wrath and conflict when a rightful claimant’s kingdom is seized—setting the ethical and psychological ground for the escalation toward war in the Udyoga Parva.