An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s3.421.4

c5.s3.421.4

"Having exerted thyself, thou wilt know what the fruit of thy exertions will be. The tiller tills the soil with the plough, and sows the seed thereon; he then sits silent, for the clouds are now the cause; and if no rain favours him, the tiller is without blame . . . If, however, no exertion is made, there can be no success . . . All this, uttered by Bṛhaspati himself, a learned brāhman said to my father and my brothers; from them I heard it" (III, 32). Bhīma tried to prevail upon Yudhishthira (especially as they had lost the sovereignty by his carelessness) he should make war with the Dhārtarāṣṭras, aided by the Sṛñjayas and Kaikeyas and Kṛṣṇa, maintaining that a man should practise virtue (dharma) for the sake of gaining wealth (artha), and acquire wealth for the sake of pleasure (kāma), but neither for its own sake; that might and energy (and the protecting of the subjects) constitute the virtue of the Kṣatriya, and that deviation from the virtues of one's own order is never laudable; that the Asuras, though elder brothers in possession of power and abundance, were all vanquished by the gods through stratagem;