This text has no attributed author, and no forward, unlike most other texts from the Sakā and Aryatsarun. Most likely this was written to avoid persecution of the author, who may be understood as arguing against the actions taken by the Sakā. Nevertheless, this scroll was lodged in the records of Asanšiyāta. It reads thusly:

Said Adarji to Bamanji: "Understand this. That it is better to see defeat through action, than victory through inaction. This proves our ways right, and proves our efforts true, for never can we say that we were defeated through laziness or Apathy."

Said Bamanji to Adarji: "Why so? Look: there is a man and his father. His father is wizened and learned in his years. He has tilled his field, and remained where he is. He brings prosperity to those about him, and remains rooted in place despite hardships. His son tells to him, 'There is evil in the south, and evil in the east - let us ride to them and snuff them out.' His father tells him, 'Yes, there is evil to the south, and evil in the east. Do not ride to them, or their evil will multiply.' The son is upset at this, and curses his father as foolish and filled with Apathy. The son says, 'You choose the path of inaction. By your inaction, those to the south and to the east will press worse hardships on those about them.' The father hears this, and replies with wisdom; 'You choose the path of action. You will bring death and destruction to those who bring Suffering, but is not death and destruction Suffering Itself? In this, you will multiply their evil.' The son does not take this to heart, and rides despite his father's warnings, and brings evil down with war and destruction."

Said Adarji to Bamanji: "This is not your place to say. Who are you to judge what is right and what is wrong? Who are you to say what is suffering and what is not suffering?"

Said Bamanji to Adarji: "Look, it is written: 'These things are true: that love can be had by all, but that all covet it; that suffering can be had by all, but that all flee from it; and that these two are linked, as if two sides of the same arrowhead. Both may cut when misused, and turn over to the other. Both may be stopped by the shield of patient understanding.' Though there is a time for war, it is not the answer to all things. The same is here. I do not say what is right and what is wrong; only those who view it afterwards can say such things, and even then they are often wrong."

Said Adarji to Bamanji: "Then what is it that should be done? Nothing? That is the way of Apathy. Suffering can only be undone by action. When a storm comes, you do not say to the storm, 'Look, you harm me and mine - love me and accept me as a brother, and we shall go from here in peace'. No! You go to shelter, you bring in the livestock, and you do what can be done to prevent destruction."

Said Bamanji to Adarji: "This is so. Yet storms are not a people, and our peoples are not livestock. They are two fathers; two wives; two sons; two daughters. One cannot say, 'Look, you do not talk with a storm, so why do you talk with a person?' One cries stupidity at the sound of it - what if I said, 'Look, you do not wage war or set fire to a storm, so why do you do that with the enemy?' Madness touches the words, and is the arguments of men who have already reached their conclusion."

Said Adarji to Bamanji: "Then let us put it to a person. You see a man on the side of the road, injured; do you help him? Or do you let him lay injured?"

Said Bamanji to Adarji: "You help him. But say you see two men fighting in the street, both of which are injured; perhaps one is worse off than the other, or one more capable at fighting. Do you intervene? Do you know why they fight? What can be done?"

Said Adarji to Bamanji: "You help the lesser fighter, that he might grow from it, and that the greater fighter might face a challenge. It is better to assuredly save one life, than to take no action and hope justice is done from it."

Said Bamanji to Adarji: "Doing so brings about new enemies, and new eyes gazing upon you. Like a fool who jumps into water without knowing its depth, is like a man who rides to war in defense of those he knows nothing about. These defenders can be just as evil if not moreso than the attacker; we know nothing save that they bring Suffering, as all wars bring Suffering. Therefore, learn the story before writing a new chapter within it, and know why it is that war is waged before intervening."

Said Adarji to Bamanji: "I hear only foolishness from your mouth. You say these things to excuse your own cowardice and to take no action, while those in front of you suffer for it. I will have none of it."

Said Bamanji to Adarji: "And I hear the same from you. You would rush headlong into all things for the sake of your own pride at the consequence of temperment. Such is the times, that we would come to such a disagreement. May the world forgive us, should we bring Suffering for the sake of our own ways in spite of the Betterment of All."

Similar debates are held in places of learning and among the higher castes of warriors, but they are few and far between from the public light, and often have imposed 'winners' on the side of "Adarjians", while "Bamanjians" routinely either accept a status quo 'agree to disagree' or are staged to admit defeat. This may bring about a divergence in the schools of thought within the Vahishrta faith.