Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 5.80

5.80.1

यदेतत्कथितं राज्ञा धर्म एष सनातनः ।
यथा च युद्धमेव स्यात्तथा कार्यमरिन्दम ॥ ५.८०.१ ॥

What the king has said is this eternal dharma; and if war must come, then so it must be done, O subduer of foes.

यदि प्रसममिच्छेयुः कुरवः पाण्डवैः सह ।
तथापि युद्धं दाशार्ह योजयेथाः सहैव तैः ॥ ५.८०.२ ॥

Even if the Kurus should wish for peace with the Pāṇḍavas, still, O Dāśārha, you should bring about war with them.

कथं नु दृष्ट्वा पाञ्चालीं तथा कृष्ण सभागताम् ।
अवधेन प्रशाम्येत मम मन्युः सुयोधने ॥ ५.८०.३ ॥

O Kṛṣṇa, having seen Draupadī brought thus into the assembly, how could my anger toward Suyodhana be calmed without killing him?

यदि भीमार्जुनौ कृष्ण धर्मराजश्च धार्मिकः ।
धर्ममुत्सृज्य तेनाहं योद्धुमिच्छामि संयुगे ॥ ५.८०.४ ॥

O Kṛṣṇa, if Bhīma and Arjuna and the righteous king of dharma, Yudhiṣṭhira, were to abandon dharma, then I would wish to fight them in battle.

ब्रूहि मद्वचनं कृष्ण सुयोधनमपण्डितम् ।
कृच्छ्रे वने वा वस्तव्यं पुरे वा नागसाह्वये ॥ ५.८०.५ ॥

O Kṛṣṇa, speak my words to the unwise Suyodhana: he must dwell in hardship in the forest, or else in the city of Nāgasāhvaya.

सत्यमाह महाबाहो सहदेवो महामतिः ।
दुर्योधनवधे शान्तिस्तस्य कोपस्य मे भवेत् ॥ ५.८०.६ ॥

O mighty-armed one, Sahadeva of great wisdom has spoken the truth: only with the slaying of Duryodhana will his anger, and mine, be calmed.

न जानासि यथा दृष्ट्वा चीराजिनधरान्वने ।
तवापि मन्युरुद्धूतो दुःखितान्प्रेक्ष्य पाण्डवान् ॥ ५.८०.७ ॥

You do not know how, having seen the Pāṇḍavas in the forest, clad in bark and deerskin and grieved, anger was also stirred up within you.

तस्मान्माद्रीसुतः शूरो यदाह रणकर्कशः ।
वचनं सर्वयोधानां तन्मतं पुरुषोत्तम ॥ ५.८०.८ ॥

Therefore, what the heroic son of Mādrī, hard in battle, has said is the opinion of all the warriors, O best of men.

एवं वदि वाक्यं तु युयुधाने महामतौ ।
सुभीमः सिंहनादोऽभूद्योधानां तत्र सर्वशः ॥ ५.८०.९ ॥

When the great-minded Yuyudhāna had spoken these words, a very terrible lion-roar of the warriors arose on all sides there.

सर्वे हि सर्वशो वीरास्तद्वचः प्रत्यपूजयन् ।
साधुसाध्विति शैनेयं हर्षयन्तो युयुत्सवः ॥ ५.८०.१० ॥

All the heroes, eager for battle, wholly honored those words, gladdening the descendant of Śini with cries of "Well said, well said!"