वैशंपायन उवाच
तद् वै श्रुत्वा भीमसेनः कुरुमध्ये ऽत्यमर्षणः ॥
स्त्री गतिः पाण्डुपुत्राणाम् इत्य् उवाच सुदुर्मनाः ॥
त्रीणि ज्योतींषि पुरुष इति वै देवलो ऽब्रवीत् ॥
अपत्यं कर्म विद्या च यतः सृष्टाः प्रजास् ततः ॥
अमेध्ये वै गतप्राणे शून्ये ज्ञातिभिर् उज्झिते ॥
देहे त्रितयम् एवैतत् पुरुषस्योपजायते ॥
तन् नो ज्योतिर् अभिहतं दाराणाम् अभिमर्शनात् ॥
धनंजय कथं स्वित् स्याद् अपत्यम् अभिमृष्टजम् ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
tad vai śrutvā bhīmasenaḥ kurumadhye 'tyamarṣaṇaḥ ||
strī gatiḥ pāṇḍuputrāṇām ity uvāca sudurmanāḥ ||
trīṇi jyotīṃṣi puruṣa iti vai devalo 'bravīt ||
apatyaṃ karma vidyā ca yataḥ sṛṣṭāḥ prajās tataḥ ||
amedhye vai gataprāṇe śūnye jñātibhir ujjhite ||
dehe tritayam evaitat puruṣasyopajāyate ||
tan no jyotir abhihataṃ dārāṇām abhimarśanāt ||
dhanaṃjaya kathaṃ svit syād apatyam abhimṛṣṭajam ||
Hearing this, Bhimasena among the Kurus, unbearably wounded and greatly saddened, cried out: "Woman is the refuge of the sons of Pandu!" "Three lights make a man," so spoke Devala, "offspring, deed, and knowledge, for from these beings continue. In a body impure, breath departed, empty, abandoned by kinsmen, only this threefold remains of a man." "That light of ours is struck through the touching of our wives; O Dhananjaya, what then will be the offspring born of one who has been touched by dishonor?"
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Bhima's grief runs deeper than anger: he is ashamed that warrior-men had to be saved by a woman, and in this shame lies a nobility that cannot bear for the defenseless to carry the burden of their protection. Devala's word about the three lights points out that a man continues not through flesh but through offspring, deed, and knowledge; and the violation of his wife's purity seems to Bhima a threat to this very continuation. Yet his grief, for all its sincerity, is clouded by confusion: Draupadi is not diminished by a villain's touch, for purity is not defiled by violence from without. The verse teaches that true shame falls on the violator, not on the violated; and that even righteous grief needs the light of higher knowledge, lest it mistake another's sin for its own dishonor.