Shloka 72
Dasyu-maryādā and Buddhi-guided Rāja-nīti (दस्युमर्यादा तथा बुद्धिप्रधान-राजनीति)
न हि वैराणि शाम्यन्ति कुले दुः:खगतानि च । आख्यातारश्व विद्यन्ते कुले वै प्रियते पुमान्,जब किसी कुलमें दुःखदायी वैर बाँध जाता है, तब वह शान्त नहीं होता। उसे याद दिलानेवाले बने ही रहते हैं, इसलिये जबतक कुलमें एक भी पुरुष जीवित रहता है, तबतक वह वैर नहीं मिटता है
na hi vairāṇi śāmyanti kule duḥkhagatāni ca | ākhyātāraś ca vidyante kule vai priyate pumān ||
ブラフマダッタは言った。「一族のうちに根を下ろし、その苦しみと結びついた怨みは、容易には鎮まらぬ。常にそれを語り継ぎ、思い起こさせ、再び燃え立たせる者がいるからだ。ゆえに、その家に男がたとえ一人でも生き残るかぎり、敵意は真に消え去らない。」
ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच
Educational Q&A
Enmity becomes durable when it is woven into a family’s collective suffering and memory. As long as there are members who remember, retell, and identify with past injuries, the feud keeps renewing itself; peace requires breaking the cycle of recollection and retaliation.
Brahmadatta is reflecting on the social psychology of clan-feuds: within a lineage there are always narrators who recount old harms, keeping resentment active. He explains why such hostility can persist across generations and why it is difficult to end without deliberate restraint and reconciliation.