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Come, mighty Yudhishtira, and look at that radiant son of Surya.
He is now in a station of his own.
Kill this grief of yours, and behold your brothers and all the other noble kings who espoused your cause.
They have all attained to their rightful places of lustrous felicity.
Let the fever of your heart be dispelled, O son of the Kurus.
Having endured a little torment rst, abide with me from now on in joy, divested entirely of grief, all your sickness of heart dispelled.
Enjoy the rewards of all your deeds of righteousness, O King, those realms of bliss that you have earned through your tapasya and all the daana that you have given so abundantly.
Let Devas and Gandharvas, and celestial Apsaras, clad in wondrous raiment and adorned with splendid ornaments, wait upon you and serve you.
Do you, now, Mahabaho, enjoy those worlds of splendour and majesty which have become yours by virtue of the Rajasuya yagna you performed, whose fruit has been enhanced by the blade of sacri ce and truth which you wielded as king of the Kurus.
Come and enjoy the high fruits of all your penances, for the realms you have earned for yourself, O Yudhishtira, are loftier than those of other kings, O son of Pritha, they are equal to those of Harishchandra.
Come, sport in bliss where the Rajarishi Mandhatri is, where the great Bhagiratha dwells, why, where Dushyanta s son Bharata is that is where you will abide in ineffable joy.
Look, here is the celestial river sanctifying the three worlds the Akasa Ganga.
Enter her current, Yudhishtira, and you will nd yourself in your own realms.
Having bathed in this stream, you will be divested of all vestiges of your human, mortal nature.
Indeed, you will be free from all con ict, your grief dispelled entire, your ailments all conquered.
O Janamejaya, after Indra, Lord of the Devas, has said this much to Yudhishtira, the God of Righteousness, Dharma Deva, in his embodied form, addresses the Dharmaputra.
King of truth, O you of great wisdom, I am highly grati ed in you, my son, by your devotion to me, by your truthfulness of speech, your forgiveness and your selfrestraint.
That was the third test to which I put you, O son of Pritha.
You are indeed incapable, of being swerved from your nature or reason.
My rst trial of you was in the Dwaita vana, when you came to the lake there to recover a Brahmana s arani twigs.
You stood it well.
I tested you once more, O son, in the shape of a dog, when your brothers and Draupadi had fallen upon Meru.
And this was your nal trial, when you, noblest king, said you would remain in Naraka for the sake of your brothers.
Blessed Yudhishtira, you have been puri ed of all traces of sin.
Now be at peace and be happy.
Son of Pritha, your brothers were not such as to deserve hell in any way.
All that you saw was an illusion created by Indra.
Yet every king must once, for certain, behold hell, and for that reason have you brie y been subjected to this torment.
O King, neither Arjuna nor Bhima, neither Sahadeva nor Nakula, and surely not Karna, all of them ever truthful and possessed of courage and valour beyond compare, could deserve to be sent to Naraka for any length of time.
The princess Krishnaa too, O Yudhishtira, could never deserve that place of sinners.
Come, come, O Bharatottama, greatest of the Bhaaratas, and behold Ganga who ows her sacred currents through the three worlds.
That Rajarishi, your grandsire, goes with Dharma and all the other gods to the Akasa Ganga and, bathing in her sanctifying waters, ever adored by the Rishis, he casts off his human body.
Assuming a celestial form, Yudhishtira Dharmaraja loses all enmity and grief.
Surrounded by the deities, Yudhishtira leaves with his father Dharma, while the greatest Rishis utter his praises.
Soon he arrives in a hallowed place where those foremost of men, those heroes, the Pandavas and the Dhartarashtras, all freed from mundane human wrath, have found and enjoy each his own lofty, illustrious status.
V CANTO aisampayana said, Thus lauded by the Devas, the Maruts and the Rishis, Yudhishtira comes to where those other great Kurusottamas are.
He sees Krishna rst, in his true form, that of the Saguna Brahman.
Yudhishtira recognizes him in his utmost glory because this Divine Form still resembles that of the Krishna he had known in the world of men.
But here the Dark One is adorned with the Sudarshana Chakra and his other weapons, each embodied and terrible.
He sees heroic Arjuna, also blazing with lustre and worshipping Krishna.
They are NaraNarayana, being adored by all the Devas.
Seeing Yudhishtira, the two greatest of created Beings welcome him with due honour.
In another place, Yudhishtira sees Karna, greatest of all wielders of weapons, as resplendent as a dozen Suryas.
Elsewhere, he sees the mighty Bhimasena, who sits in the midst of the Maruts, he, too, shining with a great and divine form of light.
Handsome and glorious, he sits beside Vayu, the Wind God, having found his ultimate goal and divine condition.
In the quarter of the Aswins, Yudhishtira sees Nakula and Sahadeva, both radiant with their own effulgence.
He sees Panchali, adorned with lotus garlands having attained grace, she too sits in Swarga dazzling like the sun.
Suddenly, Yudhishtira wants to ask her who she really is.
Illustrious Indra answers his question.
This one is Sree herself.
It was for your sake that she was born as the daughter of Drupada, into humankind, issuing not from any mother s womb, O Yudhishtira, but from the sacred re.
She was created for your delight by the Trishulin, Lord Siva himself.
She was born in the race of Drupada and all of you enjoyed her.
Look at these ve Gandharvas, glowing with the effulgence of ames they were Draupadi s sons by your brothers and you.
Behold Dhritarashtra, the king of the Gandharvas, possessed of great wisdom.
Know that he was born as your father Pandu s elder brother.
And this one here is your own eldest brother, the son of Kunti, with the brilliance of re.
The son of Surya, this greatest of men, was known in the world as Radha s son.
He now moves in the company of Surya Deva.
Look upon him, and be glad.
These resplendent ones here are all Sadhyas, Devas, Viswadevas and Maruts behold, O King of kings, the mighty Maharathas of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas, those heroes among whom Satyaki was foremost, and these others here are the great Bhojas.
And see here the mighty bowman Abhimanyu, Subhadra s son, invincible in battle, who now remains with Soma Deva, the Moon God, of whom he is an amsa.
Indeed, he is as softly lambent as the luminary of the night.
Here is none other than the mighty bowman Pandu, now united forever with Kunti and Madri.
Your sire frequently comes to me in his celestial vimana.
Behold the royal Bhishma, son of Santanu, now back in the midst of the Vasus.
And recognize this one by the side of Brihaspati as your Acharya Drona.
These and other kings who fought the Great War on your part, O son of Pandu, now all walk with the Gandharvas or Yakshas or other heavenly beings.
Some have attained to the status of Guhyakas, O King.
Having cast off their mortal bodies, they have conquered Swarga through the punya they acquired through word, thought and deed during their lifetimes.
J CANTO anamejaya said, Bhishma and Drona, those two Mahatmans the great King Dhritarashtra Virata and Drupada, Sankha and Uttara Dhrishtaketu and Jayatsena and King Satyajit the sons of Duryodhana, and Sakuni s son by Subala Karna s sons of great prowess King Jayadratha of the Sindhus Ghatotkacha and others whom you have not mentioned, heroic kings of burning glory tell me for what period or time they remained in Heaven.
O Dvijottama, was theirs an eternal place in Swarga?
What was the end attained to by these greatest of men when their karma was exhausted and their lives came to an end?
I ask you this eagerly because you see all things through your profound and searing tapasya.
Sauti said, Thus questioned, the magni cent Vaisampayana, with leave from his master the Maharishi Vyasa, set himself to answer the king.
Vaisampayana said, Not everyone, O King of men, can return to his own true condition and nature at the end of his deeds this is the essence of your deep question, Yudhishtira, and it is a worthy one.
Hear, then, O King, about this mystery of the Gods, once discoursed upon by our guru Krishna Dwaipayana, the Islandborn son of Parasara Muni, Veda Vyasa of fervid tejas, divine vision and great power, observer of stern austerities, whose understanding is fathomless, who is omniscient, and knows the end of all deeds, lives and karma.
Bhishma of powerful energy and radiance returned to his original state of being a Vasu.
You see eight Vasus before you now, O Lord of the Bharata vamsa.
Drona, greatest among the descendants of Angiras, entered into Brihaspati.
Hridika s son Kritavarman entered the Maruts.
Pradyumna entered the Rishi Sanatkumara, whence he had issued.
Dhritarashtra gained the regions, so dif cult of acquisition, which belong to Kubera, the Lord of Treasures.
The famed Gandhari found the same realms as her husband.
Pandu with both his wives went to Indraloka.
Virata, Drupada and King Dhrishtaketu, as well as Nishatha, Akrura, Samba, Bhanukampa and Viduratha, Bhurisravas and Sala, King Bhuri and Kamsa, Ugrasena and Vasudeva, and Uttara, that foremost of princes, with his brother Sankha all these great ones entered into the being of the Devas.
Soma s own son of great prowess, Varchas of mighty energy, was born as Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna, that lion among men.
Having fought the war in accord with Kshatriya dharma, with valour such as none else had ever been able to show, that mightyarmed and righteoussouled being returned to his originator Soma.
Slain on the eld of battle, Karna returned to his sire Surya.
Sakuni was absorbed into Dwapara, of whom he was an amsa, and Dhrishtadyumna into Agni, from whom he sprang.
The sons of Dhritarashtra were all Rakshasas of erce might.
Sancti ed by death through weapons, those Mahatmans of prosperity all succeeded in attaining Swarga.
Both Vidura, the Kshattri, and Yudhishtira entered into Dharma Deva, the God of Righteousness.
The holy and most illustrious Ananta, born as Balarama, left the world of men and went back into sacred Patala, the world below Bhumi, where by the command of Brahma, the Grandsire of Creation, he supported the Earth through his Yoga shakti.
Vasudeva was an amsa of that Eternal God of gods, the Devadeva called Narayana.
Accordingly, he entered into Narayana.
Sixteen thousand women had been Krishna s wives in Dwaravati.
When the time came, O Janamejaya, they committed jalasamadhi in the Saraswati.
Casting off their human bodies, they returned to Swarga.
Transformed again into the Apsaras they had always been, they went back into the presence of Vasudeva.

Come, mighty Yudhishtira, and look at that radiant son of Surya.

He is now in a station of his own.

Kill this grief of yours, and behold your brothers and all the other noble kings who espoused your cause.

They have all attained to their rightful places of lustrous felicity.

Let the fever of your heart be dispelled, O son of the Kurus.

Having endured a little torment rst, abide with me from now on in joy, divested entirely of grief, all your sickness of heart dispelled.

Enjoy the rewards of all your deeds of righteousness, O King, those realms of bliss that you have earned through your tapasya and all the daana that you have given so abundantly.

Let Devas and Gandharvas, and celestial Apsaras, clad in wondrous raiment and adorned with splendid ornaments, wait upon you and serve you.

Do you, now, Mahabaho, enjoy those worlds of splendour and majesty which have become yours by virtue of the Rajasuya yagna you performed, whose fruit has been enhanced by the blade of sacri ce and truth which you wielded as king of the Kurus.

Come and enjoy the high fruits of all your penances, for the realms you have earned for yourself, O Yudhishtira, are loftier than those of other kings, O son of Pritha, they are equal to those of Harishchandra.

Come, sport in bliss where the Rajarishi Mandhatri is, where the great Bhagiratha dwells, why, where Dushyanta s son Bharata is that is where you will abide in ineffable joy.

Look, here is the celestial river sanctifying the three worlds the Akasa Ganga.

Enter her current, Yudhishtira, and you will nd yourself in your own realms.

Having bathed in this stream, you will be divested of all vestiges of your human, mortal nature.

Indeed, you will be free from all con ict, your grief dispelled entire, your ailments all conquered.

O Janamejaya, after Indra, Lord of the Devas, has said this much to Yudhishtira, the God of Righteousness, Dharma Deva, in his embodied form, addresses the Dharmaputra.

King of truth, O you of great wisdom, I am highly grati ed in you, my son, by your devotion to me, by your truthfulness of speech, your forgiveness and your selfrestraint.

That was the third test to which I put you, O son of Pritha.

You are indeed incapable, of being swerved from your nature or reason.

My rst trial of you was in the Dwaita vana, when you came to the lake there to recover a Brahmana s arani twigs.

You stood it well.

I tested you once more, O son, in the shape of a dog, when your brothers and Draupadi had fallen upon Meru.

And this was your nal trial, when you, noblest king, said you would remain in Naraka for the sake of your brothers.

Blessed Yudhishtira, you have been puri ed of all traces of sin.

Now be at peace and be happy.

Son of Pritha, your brothers were not such as to deserve hell in any way.

All that you saw was an illusion created by Indra.

Yet every king must once, for certain, behold hell, and for that reason have you brie y been subjected to this torment.

O King, neither Arjuna nor Bhima, neither Sahadeva nor Nakula, and surely not Karna, all of them ever truthful and possessed of courage and valour beyond compare, could deserve to be sent to Naraka for any length of time.

The princess Krishnaa too, O Yudhishtira, could never deserve that place of sinners.

Come, come, O Bharatottama, greatest of the Bhaaratas, and behold Ganga who ows her sacred currents through the three worlds.

That Rajarishi, your grandsire, goes with Dharma and all the other gods to the Akasa Ganga and, bathing in her sanctifying waters, ever adored by the Rishis, he casts off his human body.

Assuming a celestial form, Yudhishtira Dharmaraja loses all enmity and grief.

Surrounded by the deities, Yudhishtira leaves with his father Dharma, while the greatest Rishis utter his praises.

Soon he arrives in a hallowed place where those foremost of men, those heroes, the Pandavas and the Dhartarashtras, all freed from mundane human wrath, have found and enjoy each his own lofty, illustrious status.

V CANTO aisampayana said, Thus lauded by the Devas, the Maruts and the Rishis, Yudhishtira comes to where those other great Kurusottamas are.

He sees Krishna rst, in his true form, that of the Saguna Brahman.

Yudhishtira recognizes him in his utmost glory because this Divine Form still resembles that of the Krishna he had known in the world of men.

But here the Dark One is adorned with the Sudarshana Chakra and his other weapons, each embodied and terrible.

He sees heroic Arjuna, also blazing with lustre and worshipping Krishna.

They are NaraNarayana, being adored by all the Devas.

Seeing Yudhishtira, the two greatest of created Beings welcome him with due honour.

In another place, Yudhishtira sees Karna, greatest of all wielders of weapons, as resplendent as a dozen Suryas.

Elsewhere, he sees the mighty Bhimasena, who sits in the midst of the Maruts, he, too, shining with a great and divine form of light.

Handsome and glorious, he sits beside Vayu, the Wind God, having found his ultimate goal and divine condition.

In the quarter of the Aswins, Yudhishtira sees Nakula and Sahadeva, both radiant with their own effulgence.

He sees Panchali, adorned with lotus garlands having attained grace, she too sits in Swarga dazzling like the sun.

Suddenly, Yudhishtira wants to ask her who she really is.

Illustrious Indra answers his question.

This one is Sree herself.

It was for your sake that she was born as the daughter of Drupada, into humankind, issuing not from any mother s womb, O Yudhishtira, but from the sacred re.

She was created for your delight by the Trishulin, Lord Siva himself.

She was born in the race of Drupada and all of you enjoyed her.

Look at these ve Gandharvas, glowing with the effulgence of ames they were Draupadi s sons by your brothers and you.

Behold Dhritarashtra, the king of the Gandharvas, possessed of great wisdom.

Know that he was born as your father Pandu s elder brother.

And this one here is your own eldest brother, the son of Kunti, with the brilliance of re.

The son of Surya, this greatest of men, was known in the world as Radha s son.

He now moves in the company of Surya Deva.

Look upon him, and be glad.

These resplendent ones here are all Sadhyas, Devas, Viswadevas and Maruts behold, O King of kings, the mighty Maharathas of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas, those heroes among whom Satyaki was foremost, and these others here are the great Bhojas.

And see here the mighty bowman Abhimanyu, Subhadra s son, invincible in battle, who now remains with Soma Deva, the Moon God, of whom he is an amsa.

Indeed, he is as softly lambent as the luminary of the night.

Here is none other than the mighty bowman Pandu, now united forever with Kunti and Madri.

Your sire frequently comes to me in his celestial vimana.

Behold the royal Bhishma, son of Santanu, now back in the midst of the Vasus.

And recognize this one by the side of Brihaspati as your Acharya Drona.

These and other kings who fought the Great War on your part, O son of Pandu, now all walk with the Gandharvas or Yakshas or other heavenly beings.

Some have attained to the status of Guhyakas, O King.

Having cast off their mortal bodies, they have conquered Swarga through the punya they acquired through word, thought and deed during their lifetimes.

J CANTO anamejaya said, Bhishma and Drona, those two Mahatmans the great King Dhritarashtra Virata and Drupada, Sankha and Uttara Dhrishtaketu and Jayatsena and King Satyajit the sons of Duryodhana, and Sakuni s son by Subala Karna s sons of great prowess King Jayadratha of the Sindhus Ghatotkacha and others whom you have not mentioned, heroic kings of burning glory tell me for what period or time they remained in Heaven.

O Dvijottama, was theirs an eternal place in Swarga?

What was the end attained to by these greatest of men when their karma was exhausted and their lives came to an end?

I ask you this eagerly because you see all things through your profound and searing tapasya.

Sauti said, Thus questioned, the magni cent Vaisampayana, with leave from his master the Maharishi Vyasa, set himself to answer the king.

Vaisampayana said, Not everyone, O King of men, can return to his own true condition and nature at the end of his deeds this is the essence of your deep question, Yudhishtira, and it is a worthy one.

Hear, then, O King, about this mystery of the Gods, once discoursed upon by our guru Krishna Dwaipayana, the Islandborn son of Parasara Muni, Veda Vyasa of fervid tejas, divine vision and great power, observer of stern austerities, whose understanding is fathomless, who is omniscient, and knows the end of all deeds, lives and karma.

Bhishma of powerful energy and radiance returned to his original state of being a Vasu.

You see eight Vasus before you now, O Lord of the Bharata vamsa.

Drona, greatest among the descendants of Angiras, entered into Brihaspati.

Hridika s son Kritavarman entered the Maruts.

Pradyumna entered the Rishi Sanatkumara, whence he had issued.

Dhritarashtra gained the regions, so dif cult of acquisition, which belong to Kubera, the Lord of Treasures.

The famed Gandhari found the same realms as her husband.

Pandu with both his wives went to Indraloka.

Virata, Drupada and King Dhrishtaketu, as well as Nishatha, Akrura, Samba, Bhanukampa and Viduratha, Bhurisravas and Sala, King Bhuri and Kamsa, Ugrasena and Vasudeva, and Uttara, that foremost of princes, with his brother Sankha all these great ones entered into the being of the Devas.

Soma s own son of great prowess, Varchas of mighty energy, was born as Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna, that lion among men.

Having fought the war in accord with Kshatriya dharma, with valour such as none else had ever been able to show, that mightyarmed and righteoussouled being returned to his originator Soma.

Slain on the eld of battle, Karna returned to his sire Surya.

Sakuni was absorbed into Dwapara, of whom he was an amsa, and Dhrishtadyumna into Agni, from whom he sprang.

The sons of Dhritarashtra were all Rakshasas of erce might.

Sancti ed by death through weapons, those Mahatmans of prosperity all succeeded in attaining Swarga.

Both Vidura, the Kshattri, and Yudhishtira entered into Dharma Deva, the God of Righteousness.

The holy and most illustrious Ananta, born as Balarama, left the world of men and went back into sacred Patala, the world below Bhumi, where by the command of Brahma, the Grandsire of Creation, he supported the Earth through his Yoga shakti.

Vasudeva was an amsa of that Eternal God of gods, the Devadeva called Narayana.

Accordingly, he entered into Narayana.

Sixteen thousand women had been Krishna s wives in Dwaravati.

When the time came, O Janamejaya, they committed jalasamadhi in the Saraswati.

Casting off their human bodies, they returned to Swarga.

Transformed again into the Apsaras they had always been, they went back into the presence of Vasudeva.