Shloka 34
सुरभि–इन्द्रसंवादः
Surabhi–Indra Dialogue as a Governance Exemplar
4432 ) त्वदभिद्रोहसंयुक्तं युद्धमुत्पत्स्यते महत् । तत्र भीमो गदाघातैस्तवोरं भेत्स्यते बली,"तेरे द्रोहके कारण बड़ा भारी युद्ध छिड़ेगा, उसमें बलवान् भीमसेन अपनी गदाकी चोटसे तेरी जाँघ तोड़ डालेंगे”
tvad-abhidroha-saṁyuktaṁ yuddham utpatsyate mahat | tatra bhīmo gadā-ghātaiḥ tavoraṁ bhetsyate balī ||
Dijo Vaiśampāyana: «Por tu acto de traición estallará una gran guerra. En ese combate, el poderoso Bhīma destrozará tu muslo con los golpes de su maza.»
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Treachery (abhidroha) is portrayed as a seed of vast social catastrophe: unethical hostility does not remain private but ripens into collective violence, and the wrongdoer becomes subject to fitting retribution.
The narrator Vaiśampāyana foretells that a great war will erupt due to the addressee’s betrayal, and that in that war Bhīma will strike and break the opponent’s thigh with his mace—an anticipatory reference to a decisive, humiliating injury in the later conflict.