तं भीमसेनः क्रोधाग्निं त्रयोदश समाः स्थितम् ॥
विसृजंस् तव पुत्राणाम् अन्तं गच्छति कौरव ॥
विलपंश् च बहु क्षत्ता शमं नालभत त्वयि ॥
सपुत्रो भरतश्रेष्ठ तस्य भुङ्क्ष्व फलोदयम् ॥
हतो विकर्णो राजेन्द्र चित्रसेनश् च वीर्यवान् ॥
taṃ bhīmasenaḥ krodhāgniṃ trayodaśa samāḥ sthitam ||
visṛjaṃs tava putrāṇām antaṃ gacchati kaurava ||
vilapaṃś ca bahu kṣattā śamaṃ nālabhata tvayi ||
saputro bharataśreṣṭha tasya bhuṅkṣva phalodayam ||
hato vikarṇo rājendra citrasenaś ca vīryavān ||
That fire of wrath, smoldering thirteen years within him, Bhimasena, pouring it forth, brings to an end your sons, O Kaurava. And Kshattar [Vidura], who lamented much, found no peace in you; together with your sons, O best of the Bharatas, taste the ripened fruit of that.
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Bhima's wrath is not a flare but a fire that smoldered thirteen years: an unatoned wrong ripens into inescapable reckoning. It is significant that Vidura lamented and found no response in the king: the voice of conscience was there, but it was refused. The verse teaches that a grievance carried in the heart for years will in its season exact its full due; and one who stifles the warning voice condemns himself to taste the bitter fruit of the evil he himself has nurtured.