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.s3.421.5

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that as wealth should be spent by one who wishes to increase his wealth, just as seeds are scattered on the ground, thus a person who throws away a little of his virtue like seeds (dharma) in order to gain a larger measure of virtue is regarded as wise, and that whatever sin a monarch commits in acquiring dominion, he cancels it all afterwards by sacrifices and by bestowing villages, etc., on brahmans (III, 33). Yudhishthira declared that he was unable to violate the pledge, and that it was now too late for Bhīma to use harsh words (III, 34). Bhīma said that only he whose life is unlimited, or who knows what the period of his life is, has time to wait; they ought to strive for the possession of the kingdom before they died; "if a man, slaying his injurer, goes the very day into hell, that hell becomes heaven to him; the pain one feels in having to suppress his wrath is more burning than fire itself; . . . thou art kind like a brahman, how hast thou been born in the Kshatriya order? those who are born in this order are generally of cruel hearts; thou hast heard the duties of kings, as promulgated by Manu, cruel and fraught with crookedness and opposed to tranquillity (çama); moreover, we will not be able to live unknown, as we are known all over the world, and many kings, who have been expelled by us from their kingdoms, and robbed and exiled by us, will assist Duryodhana and set against us numerous spies in disguise;