Shloka 11
Yudhiṣṭhira’s Reproof and Vow-Logic: On Dice-Deception, Exile Terms, and the Governance of Anger
Adhyāya 35
अमर्षसे जो संताप होता है, वह आगसे भी बढ़कर जलानेवाला है। जिससे संतप्त होकर मुझे न तो रातमें नींद आती है और न दिनमें
amarṣaḥ saṃtāpo yaḥ sa agner api vardhataro dāhakaḥ; yena saṃtaptasya mama na rātrau nidrā bhavati na ca divā.
Dijo Bhīmasena: «El ardor de la indignación quema más que el propio fuego. Atormentado por él, no hallo sueño en la noche ni sosiego durante el día».
भीमसेन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Uncontrolled indignation (amarṣa) becomes a self-consuming fire: it punishes the one who bears it by destroying rest and clarity, implying the ethical need to govern anger even when one has been wronged.
Bhīma voices his intense inner agitation during the forest-exile context, describing how the heat of resentment over wrongdoing leaves him sleepless at night and unsettled by day.