Mahabharata Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /466

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THE MAHABHARATA
 
Then, making heaven and earth resound

all over, Indira came in his chariot to

Yudhisthira, and asked him to ascend

the chariot.
 

 
युधिष्ठिरः-
"
 

'न विना भ्रातृभिस्स्वर्गमिच्छे गन्तुं सुरेश्वर ।

सुकुमारी च गच्छेत तद्भवाननुमन्यताम् ॥ '
 

Yudhisthira -

King of the gods! I do not desire

to go to heaven without my brothers;

and let the beautiful Draupadi also go

(to heaven); may you permit that."
 

 
इन्द्रः-
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'निक्षिप्य मानुषं देहं गतास्ते भरतर्षभ ।

अनेन त्वं शरीरेण स्वर्गेगं गन्ता न संशयः ॥ '
 

Indra--

"Illustrious scion of Bharata! they have

(all) gone (to heaven), casting off their

human bodies. You shall surely go to
.
heaven even with this body."