स मत्त इव मातङ्गः संक्रुद्ध इव चोरगः ॥
दुर्योधनम् इदं वाक्यम् अब्रवीद् युद्धलालसः ॥
विदितं ते महाराज यथा भीमेन राक्षसाः ॥
हिडिम्बबककिर्मीरा निहता मम बान्धवाः ॥
परामर्शश् च कन्याया हिडिम्बायाः कृतः पुरा ॥
किम् अन्यद् राक्षसान् अन्यान् अस्मांश् च परिभूय ह ॥
तम् अहं सगणं राजन् सवाजिरथकुञ्जरम् ॥
हैडिम्बं च सहामात्यं हन्तुम् अभ्यागतः स्वयम् ॥
sa matta iva mātaṅgaḥ saṃkruddha iva coragaḥ ||
duryodhanam idaṃ vākyam abravīd yuddhalālasaḥ ||
viditaṃ te mahārāja yathā bhīmena rākṣasāḥ ||
hiḍimbabakakirmīrā nihatā mama bāndhavāḥ ||
parāmarśaś ca kanyāyā hiḍimbāyāḥ kṛtaḥ purā ||
kim anyad rākṣasān anyān asmāṃś ca paribhūya ha ||
tam ahaṃ sagaṇaṃ rājan savājirathakuñjaram ||
haiḍimbaṃ ca sahāmātyaṃ hantum abhyāgataḥ svayam ||
...having learned of this night battle, longing to slay Bhima in combat, he, like a maddened elephant and like an enraged serpent, spoke this word to Duryodhana, craving battle: "Known to you, O great king, is how the rakshasas Hidimba, Baka, and Kirmira were slain by Bhima — my kinsmen. And violence upon the maiden Hidimba was done in the past. Him, I, with his retinue, O king, with horses, chariots, and elephants, and the son of Hidimba [Ghatotkacha] with his counselors, have myself come to slay."
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Alayudha lists his grievances like a bill payable in blood: slain kinsmen, a violated maiden. It is telling that he calls himself one who has come "himself" — for him vengeance is a matter of honor, not a duty assigned. The verse teaches that grievance turned into a ledger of debts makes a man a slave of the past: he lives not in the present but in an old wound; and one who comes to repay blood with blood has already surrendered himself to the very enmity that destroyed his kin.