संजय उवाच
युवराजे हते चैव वृद्धक्षत्रे च पौरवे ॥
इष्वस्त्रविधिसंपन्ने मालवे च सुदर्शने ॥
धृष्टद्युम्ने सात्यकौ च भीमे चापि पराजिते ॥
युधिष्ठिरस्य तैर् वाक्यैर् मर्मण्य् अपि च घट्टिते ॥
अन्तर्भेदे च संजाते दुःखं संस्मृत्य च प्रभो ॥
अभूतपूर्वो बीभत्सोर् दुःखान् मन्युर् अजायत ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
yuvarāje hate caiva vṛddhakṣatre ca paurave ||
iṣvastravidhisaṃpanne mālave ca sudarśane ||
dhṛṣṭadyumne sātyakau ca bhīme cāpi parājite ||
yudhiṣṭhirasya tair vākyair marmaṇy api ca ghaṭṭite ||
antarbhede ca saṃjāte duḥkhaṃ saṃsmṛtya ca prabho ||
abhūtapūrvo bībhatsor duḥkhān manyur ajāyata ||
When the crown prince was slain, and Vriddhakshatra the Paurava, skilled in the law of bow and weapon, and Sudarshana of Malava, when Dhrishtadyumna, Satyaki, and Bhima were defeated, and Yudhishthira's words had touched his vital places, and when a rift arose among his own, and recalling the grief, O lord -- an unprecedented wrath was born in Bibhatsu out of his sorrow.
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Sanjaya explains Arjuna's harshness: the death of comrades, the defeat of friends, the rift within the camp, and Yudhishthira's wounding words -- all merged into a grief that gave birth to anger. It is telling that "out of grief wrath was born" (duhkhat manyuh): the fury here is not malice but distorted sorrow. The verse teaches that anger is most often pain that has found no other outlet; and one who has flared up should be judged by seeing the wound beneath the outburst, not the outburst alone.