Shloka 166
अध्याय ७५ — दैव-पुरुषकार-समन्वयः
Reconciling Contingency and Human Effort
द्रष्टा मां त्वं च लोकश्न विकर्षन्तं वरान् वरान् जब (घमासान युद्धमें) मैं कुपित होकर मतवाले हाथियों
draṣṭā māṃ tvaṃ ca loka-jña vikarṣantaṃ varān varān; yuddhe krodha-samāviṣṭo mattān gajān rathinaś ca hayārohāṃś ca pātayiṣyāmi prakṣepsyāmi ca; anyāṃś ca śreṣṭhān kṣatriya-vīrān nihaniṣyāmi; tadā tvaṃ ca pare lokāś ca māṃ drakṣyatha yathāhaṃ pradhāna-pradhānān vīrān vicitya vicitya saṃharāmi.
ビーマセーナは言った。「世の道を知る汝は、我が最上の戦士たちを引きずり落とすさまを目撃するであろう。激戦のただ中で我が憤怒に燃え、狂える戦象、車戦の勇士、騎兵を打ち倒しては投げ捨て始め、さらに他の卓越したクシャトリヤの英雄たちを討ち始めるその時、汝も人々も見るがよい—我がいかにして主だった勇者を一人また一人と選び出し、滅ぼしてゆくかを。」
भीमसेन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse foregrounds kṣatriya-dharma as martial duty: Bhīma frames his coming violence as deliberate, targeted destruction of leading enemy champions. Ethically, it highlights the tension between righteous duty in war and the dangerous momentum of anger (krodha) that can intensify violence.
Bhīma declares that, once battle begins, he will in wrath bring down elephants, chariot-fighters, and cavalry, and will systematically pick out and kill the foremost kṣatriya heroes—so that the addressed ‘knower of the world’ and others will witness his selective slaughter of principal warriors.