Adhyāya 164: Gautama as Guest; Kaśyapa’s Satkāra and the Fourfold Arthagati; Journey to Virūpākṣa
एतेषामुदयं स्थान क्षयं च पृथिवीपते । हन्त ते कथयिष्यामि क्रोधस्योत्पत्तिमादित:
eteṣām udayaṃ sthānaṃ kṣayaṃ ca pṛthivīpate | hanta te kathayiṣyāmi krodhasyotpattim āditaḥ ||
ビーシュマは言った。「大地の主よ、これら(過失)の起こり、宿るところ、そして衰滅を、そなたに説き明かそう。さあ——まず第一に、怒りがいかにして生まれるかを語ろう。」
भीष्म उवाच
Bhīṣma frames anger as a moral-psychological problem with a knowable lifecycle—origin, support, and dissolution—implying that ethical mastery begins by understanding how anger arises and what sustains it.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction to the king, Bhīṣma transitions into a systematic explanation of inner faults, announcing that he will begin by describing the genesis of anger (krodha).