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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Maha-Bharata, The Epic Of Ancient India - Conclusion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The real Epic ends with the war and with the funerals of the deceased<br>warriors, as we have stated before, and Yudhishthir's Horse-Sacrifice<br>is rather a crowning ornament than a part of the solid edifice. What<br>follows the sacrifice is in no sense a part of the real Epic; it<br>consists merely of concluding personal narratives of the heroes who<br>have figured in the poem.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Dhrita-rashtra retires into a forest with his queen Gandhari, and<br>Pritha, the mother of the Pandav brothers, accompanies them. In the<br>solitude of the forest the old Dhrita-rashtra sees as in a vision<br>the spirits of all the slain warriors, his sons and grandsons and<br>kinsmen, clad and armed as they were in battle. The spirits disappear<br>in the morning at the bidding of Vyasa, who had called them up. At<br>last Dhrita-rashtra and Gandhari and Pritha are burnt to death in a<br>forest conflagration, death by fire being considered holy.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Krishna at Dwarka meets with strange and tragic adventures. The<br>Vrishnis and the Andhakas become irreligious and addicted to<br>drinking, and fall a prey to internal dissensions. Valadeva and<br>Krishna die shortly after, and the city of the Yadavas is swallowed<br>up by the ocean.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then follow the two concluding Books of the Epic, the _Great Journey_<br>and the _Ascent to Heaven_, so beautifully rendered into English by<br>Sir Edwin Arnold. On hearing of the death of their friend Krishna,<br>the Pandav brothers place Prakshit, the grandson of Arjun, on the<br>throne, and retire to the Himalayas. Draupadi drops down dead on<br>the way, then Sahadeva, then Nakula, then Arjun, and then Bhima.<br>Yudhishthir alone proceeds to heaven in person in a celestial car.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There Yudhishthir undergoes some trial, bathes in the celestial<br>Ganges, and rises with a celestial body. He then meets Krishna, now<br>in his heavenly form, blazing in splendour and glory. He meets his<br>brothers whom he had lost on earth, but who are now Immortals in<br>the sky, clad in heavenly forms. INDRA himself appears before<br>Yudhishthir, and introduces him to others who were dear to him on<br>earth, and are dear to him in heaven. Thus speaks INDRA to<br>Yudhishthir:</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'This is She, the fair Immortal! Her no human mother bore,<br>Sprung from altar as Draupadi human shape for thee she wore,</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">By the Wielder of the trident she was waked to form and life,<br>Born in royal Drupad's mansion, righteous man, to be thy wife,</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">These are bright aerial beings, went for thee to lower earth,<br>Borne by Drupad's stainless daughter as thy children took their birth!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This is monarch Dhrita-rashtra who doth o'er _gandharvas_ reign,<br>This is brave immortal Karna, erst on earth by Arjun slain,</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Like the fire in ruddy splendour, for the Sun inspired his birth,<br>As the son of Chariot-driver he was known upon the earth!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Midst the _Sadhyas_ and the _Maruts_, 'midst immortals pure and bright,<br>Seek thy friends the faithful Vrishnis matchless in their warlike might.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Seek and find the brave Satyaki who upheld thy cause so well,<br>Seek the Bhojas and Andhakas who in Kuru-kshetra fell!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This is gallant Abhimanyu whom the fair Subhadra bore,<br>Still unconquered in the battle, slain by fraud in yonder shore,</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Abhimanyu, son of Arjun, wielding Arjun's peerless might,<br>With the Lord of Night he ranges, beauteous as the Lord of Night!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This, Yudhishthir, is thy father! by thy mother joined in heaven,<br>Oft he comes into my mansions in his flowery chariot driven,</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This is Bhishma, stainless warrior, by the _Vasus_ is his place,<br>By the god of heavenly wisdom teacher Drona sits in grace!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">_These and other mighty warriors, in the earthly battle slain,<br>By their valour and their virtue walk the bright ethereal plain!_</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">_They have cast their mortal bodies, crossed the radiant gate of heaven,<br>For to win celestial mansions unto mortals it is given!_</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">_Let them strive by kindly action, gentle speech, endurance long,<br>Brighter life and holier future into sons of men belong!'_</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Romesh+Chunder+Dutt">Romesh Chunder Dutt</a></strong></div>