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

Vaiśampāyana nói: Vì sợ hãi, chúng bất giác phóng uế và tiểu tiện. Rồi bậc đại lực ấy lập tức tiến vào, gạt chúng sang một bên—một hình ảnh cho thấy nỗi kinh hoàng có thể lột trần mọi vẻ điềm tĩnh giả tạo khi đối diện sức mạnh áp đảo.

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

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.