THE ASCENT OF YUDISTHIRA
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Ascend thou to thine own place! Hell must indeed be seen by every king. Happy arc they whose good deeds have been so many that they first suffer and afterwards enjoy. To thee and to these thy kindred, Yudisthira, has Hell been shown only by a kind of mirage. Come, then, thou royal sage, behold here the heavenly Ganges. Plunge thou into this Milky Way, and casting off there thy human body, divest thyself with it of all thine enmity and grief. Then rise, O thou of never-dying glory 1 to join thy kinsmen and friends and Draupadi, in those blessed regions wherein they already dwell, great even as Indra, enthroned in Heaven!"
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