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