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- 0:00Speaker 1: Conclusion their real epic answered the oar under the funerals
- 0:06Speaker 1: of the deceased warriors, as we have stated before, and
- 0:10Speaker 1: it is their's horse. Sacrifice is rather a crowning ornament
- 0:13Speaker 1: than a part of the solidadifies what follows. The sacrifice
- 0:18Speaker 1: is in no sense a part of the real epic.
- 0:21Speaker 1: It consists merely of concluding personal narratives of the heroes
- 0:24Speaker 1: who have figured in the poem. Tritraastra retails into forest
- 0:29Speaker 1: with his queen Gandhary and Pritha, the mother of the
- 0:33Speaker 1: Panda brothers, accompanies them. In the solitude of the forest,
- 0:37Speaker 1: the old Tetraashtra sees as in a vision, the spirits
- 0:41Speaker 1: of all the slain warriors, his sons and grandsons and kinsmen,
- 0:45Speaker 1: clad and armed as they were in battle. The spirits
- 0:49Speaker 1: disappear in the morning at the bidding of Viyaza, who
- 0:52Speaker 1: had called them up. At last, Tritraastra and Gundhary and
- 0:55Speaker 1: Pritha are burned to death in a forest conflaguration that
- 1:00Speaker 1: by fire being considered holy. Krishna at Dwarka meets its
- 1:05Speaker 1: strange and tragic adventures. The Breshnis and the Underkas becoming
- 1:09Speaker 1: religious and addicted to drinking and fall a prey to
- 1:13Speaker 1: internal dissensions while theyved. Krishna die shortly after, and the
- 1:18Speaker 1: city of the Yadavs is swallowed up by the ocean.
- 1:23Speaker 1: Then follow the two concluding books of Diapic, The Great
- 1:27Speaker 1: Journey and The Ascent to Heaven, so beautifully rendered into
- 1:30Speaker 1: English by Sir Adwin Arnold. On hearing of the death
- 1:34Speaker 1: of their friend Krishna, the Pander brothers place Parikshit, the
- 1:37Speaker 1: grandson of Virgin, on the throne, and retair to the
- 1:40Speaker 1: himalayas Tropody drops down dead on the way, then Sadib,
- 1:45Speaker 1: then Knuckle, then Nudjun and then viham. He Di stair
- 1:49Speaker 1: alone proceeds to Heaven in person in a celestial car.
- 1:54Speaker 1: There it is to undergoes some trial, baits in the
- 1:57Speaker 1: celestial Ganges, and rises with a celestial he then meets Krishna,
- 2:02Speaker 1: now in his heavenly form, blazing in splendor and glory.
- 2:06Speaker 1: He meets his brothers, whom he had lost on art
- 2:09Speaker 1: but who are now immortals in the sky clad in
- 2:12Speaker 1: heavenly forms. Indra himself appears before it is ture and
- 2:17Speaker 1: introduces him to others who were dear to him on arth,
- 2:20Speaker 1: and are dear to him in heaven. Thus speak Sindra
- 2:24Speaker 1: to it his ture. This is she, the fair, mortal,
- 2:28Speaker 1: hard no human mother bore sprung from altar as dropady
- 2:32Speaker 1: human shame for thee she wore by the wilder of
- 2:36Speaker 1: the trident. She was wake to form and life. Born
- 2:39Speaker 1: in Royal Drupet's mansion, righteous man, to be thy wife.
- 2:44Speaker 1: These are bright aerial beings, went for deed to lower art,
- 2:48Speaker 1: born by Drupert's teainless daughter, as thy children took their bard.
- 2:53Speaker 1: This is monarch Teterastra, who doth over Gundherb's reign. This
- 2:58Speaker 1: is brave, immortal carn arstone art by urgent slaying like
- 3:03Speaker 1: the fire in radi'spander for the sun inspired his birth
- 3:07Speaker 1: as the son of chariot driver, he was known upon
- 3:10Speaker 1: the art midst the sideas and the madudes midst imortals
- 3:15Speaker 1: pure and pride. Seek their friends, the faithful Breshnis, matchless
- 3:19Speaker 1: in their warlike miight, Seek and find a brave side Ticki,
- 3:24Speaker 1: who upheld thy cause so well. Seek the Vojas Andhakas
- 3:28Speaker 1: who in Kurukshatra fell. This is gallant of Vimenu, whom
- 3:33Speaker 1: the affairs of a drabor still unconquered in the battle,
- 3:37Speaker 1: slain by fraud in the under shore of Vimenu, son
- 3:41Speaker 1: of Virjun. Welding Urgent's peerless might with the Lord of Night,
- 3:45Speaker 1: he ranges beauteous as the Lord of Knight. This it
- 3:49Speaker 1: is there is thy Father, by thy Mother, joined in heaven.
- 3:54Speaker 1: Oft he comes into my mansions in his flowery chariot Draven.
- 3:58Speaker 1: This is Vishma, stainless warrior. By the Basuzi is his place.
- 4:03Speaker 1: By the God of avonly wisdom. Teacher Drona sits in grace.
- 4:08Speaker 1: These and other mighty warriors in the darkly battle, slain
- 4:12Speaker 1: by their valor and their virtue, walk the bright atrial plain.
- 4:17Speaker 1: They have cast their mortal bodies crossed the radiant gate
- 4:20Speaker 1: of heaven, for to win celestial mansions all to mortals
- 4:24Speaker 1: it is given. Let them strive by kindly action, gentle
- 4:29Speaker 1: speech and durance, long brighter life and holier future, into
- 4:33Speaker 1: sons of man belong and of conclusion.