Shloka 3
Ādi Parva, Adhyāya 180 — Svayaṃvara-Virodha and Pāṇḍava Parākrama
Draupadī Episode
यो हि कारणत:ः क्रोध॑ संजातं क्षन्तुमर्हति । नालं स मनुज: सम्यक् त्रिवर्ग परिरक्षितुम्
Aurva uvāca | yo hi kāraṇataḥ krodhaṃ sañjātaṃ kṣantum arhati | nālaṃ sa manuṣyaḥ samyak trivargaṃ parirakṣitum || tato vṛddhāṃś ca bālāṃś ca rākṣasān sa mahāmuniḥ | dadāha vitate yajñe śakteḥ vadham anusmaran ||
ウールヴァは言った。「何らかの理由で胸中に生じた怒りをただ耐え忍ぶ者は、人生の三つの目的――ダルマ、アルタ、カーマ――を正しく守り立てる力を持たぬ。」 そののち大聖パラーシャラは、広大な供犠を執り行い、父シャクティ殺害の記憶を幾度も呼び起こしつつ、羅刹たちを――老いも若きも――焼き尽くし始めた。
ऑर्व उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links governance of life’s aims (dharma, artha, kāma) with the proper handling of anger: uncontrolled or mismanaged anger undermines one’s capacity to protect these goals. It also warns, by narrative example, that anger rooted in grief and vengeance can expand into indiscriminate harm.
After Aurva’s statement about anger and the trivarga, the story turns to Parāśara: during a large sacrificial rite, he repeatedly remembers his father Śakti’s killing and, driven by that recollection, begins burning the Rākṣasas—without sparing even the elderly and children.