Shloka 49

Bhīmasena–Hanūmān Saṃvāda: The Tail Test and the Divine Path

Devanagari script

भयाद्‌ विससूजुर्भीमं शकृन्मूत्रं च सुखुवु: । प्रविवेश तत: क्षिप्रं तानपास्य महाबल:

Transliteration

bhayād visasūjur bhīmaṃ śakṛn-mūtraṃ ca sukhuvuḥ | praviveśa tataḥ kṣipraṃ tān apāsya mahābalaḥ ||

Translation

ด้วยความกลัว พวกมันถึงกับปล่อยอุจจาระและปัสสาวะออกมาโดยไม่รู้ตัวต่อหน้าภีมะ แล้วผู้ทรงพละก็ผลักพวกมันให้พ้นทาง ก่อนจะรีบก้าวเข้าไปข้างหน้า

Word by Word

भयात्from fear

विससूजुःthey discharged/voided

भीमम्Bhima

शकृत्feces

मूत्रम्urine

चand

सुखुवुःthey offered/sacrificed (lit. poured as oblation)

प्रविवेशhe entered

ततःthen/from there

क्षिप्रम्quickly

तान्them

अपास्यhaving cast aside/left behind

महाबलःthe mighty-strong (one)

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Bhīma

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores a psychological and ethical realism: fear can reduce even the proud to helplessness, revealing the fragility of outward dignity; true steadiness is tested not in comfort but under threat.

What is happening in the narrative?

Those confronted by Bhīma are so terrified that they involuntarily void feces and urine; Bhīma, described as mahābala, swiftly enters and brushes past them.