वैशंपायन उवाच
अनुज्ञातांस् तान् विदित्वा धृतराष्ट्रेण धीमता ॥
राजन् दुःशासनः क्षिप्रं जगाम भ्रातरं प्रति ॥
दुर्योधनं समासाद्य सामात्यं भरतर्षभ ॥
दुःखार्तो भरतश्रेष्ठ इदं वचनम् अब्रवीत् ॥
दुःखेनैतत् समानीतं स्थविरो नाशयत्य् असौ ॥
शत्रुसाद् गमयद् द्रव्यं तद् बुध्यध्वं महारथाः ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
anujñātāṃs tān viditvā dhṛtarāṣṭreṇa dhīmatā ||
rājan duḥśāsanaḥ kṣipraṃ jagāma bhrātaraṃ prati ||
duryodhanaṃ samāsādya sāmātyaṃ bharatarṣabha ||
duḥkhārto bharataśreṣṭha idaṃ vacanam abravīt ||
duḥkhenaitat samānītaṃ sthaviro nāśayaty asau ||
śatrusād gamayad dravyaṃ tad budhyadhvaṃ mahārathāḥ ||
Having learned that the Pandavas had been released by the wise Dhritarashtra, O king, Duhshasana quickly went to his brother. Approaching Duryodhana, who was with his counselors, O bull of the Bharatas, afflicted with grief, he, the best of the Bharatas, spoke this word: "That which we gathered with such toil, the old man is destroying: our wealth he has handed over to the enemy — understand this, O great chariot-warriors!"
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For the greedy, the return of what was wrongly seized is not a correction but a loss: Duhshasana grieves over wealth that was never his as though it were his own flesh and blood. Here the perversity of the covetous man stands exposed: what belongs to another, once seized, seems to him already his own, and parting with plunder he experiences as an injury. Telling is his word about the "old man who destroys": justice, in the mouth of the wicked, is called ruin. The verse teaches that to a soul enslaved by greed, all justice seems like harm; that ill-gotten gain grows fused to the heart, so that its removal wounds like the removal of a part of oneself; and that evil is never satisfied but multiplies its claims — for what has been rightfully given up it at once schemes to reclaim by deceit.