Bhima said If our this Guru (superior), this high-souled Dharmaraja, were not our lord, we would not have pardoned this (Kuru) race.
भीमसेन उवाच योष गुरुरस्माकं धर्मराजो महामनाः। न प्रभुः स्यात् कुलस्यास्य न वयं मर्षयेमहि॥