शशाप तत्र भीमस् तु राजमध्ये महास्वनः ॥
क्रोधाद् विस्फुरमाणोष्ठो विनिष्पिष्य करे करम् ॥
इदं मे वाक्यम् आदद्ध्वं क्षत्रिया लोकवासिनः ॥
नोक्तपूर्वं नरैर् अन्यैर् न चान्यो यद् वदिष्यति ॥
यद्य् एतद् एवम् उक्त्वा तु न कुर्यां पृथिवीश्वराः ॥
पितामहानां सर्वेषां नाहं गतिम् अवाप्नुयाम् ॥
अस्य पापस्य दुर्जातेर् भारतापसदस्य च ॥
न पिबेयं बलाद् वक्षो भित्त्वा चेद् रुधिरं युधि ॥
तस्य ते वचनं श्रुत्वा सर्वलोकप्रहर्षणम् ॥
प्रचक्रुर् बहुलां पूजां कुत्सन्तो धृतराष्ट्रजम् ॥
śaśāpa tatra bhīmas tu rājamadhye mahāsvanaḥ ||
krodhād visphuramāṇoṣṭho viniṣpiṣya kare karam ||
idaṃ me vākyam ādaddhvaṃ kṣatriyā lokavāsinaḥ ||
noktapūrvaṃ narair anyair na cānyo yad vadiṣyati ||
yady etad evam uktvā tu na kuryāṃ pṛthivīśvarāḥ ||
pitāmahānāṃ sarveṣāṃ nāhaṃ gatim avāpnuyām ||
asya pāpasya durjāter bhāratāpasadasya ca ||
na pibeyaṃ balād vakṣo bhittvā ced rudhiraṃ yudhi ||
tasya te vacanaṃ śrutvā sarvalokapraharṣaṇam ||
pracakrur bahulāṃ pūjāṃ kutsanto dhṛtarāṣṭrajam ||
And there Bhima uttered a curse among the kings in a loud voice, his lips trembling with anger, clasping palm against palm: "Hear this word of mine, O kshatriyas, dwellers of the world — spoken before by no one, and which no other will ever speak: if, having said this, I do not accomplish it, O lords of the earth, may I never attain the path of all the forefathers! And if, having torn open the chest of this sinner, this low-born refuse of the Bharatas, I do not drink his blood by force in battle — may I have no share in dharma!" Hearing this word of his, which gladdened the whole world, they offered him abundant praise, reviling the son of Dhritarashtra.
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Bhima's vow is terrible, but it is not blind vengeance: he swears not to attain the path of the ancestors unless he punishes the hand that dared against purity — that is, he places the punishment of lawlessness above his own salvation. Here anger rises into a vow, and the vow into service to dharma: Bhima does not burn for himself, but for the woman wronged and the law trampled. It is telling that the assembly, silent until then out of fear, rejoices on hearing the word of retribution — conscience, though bound, breaks free at the voice of truth. The verse teaches that there are misdeeds which dharma itself demands be punished, and that a vow made in a just hour becomes the thread along which the coming retribution moves.