Note 17 — Chapter IX · The Islands of the Blest
Reading edition
Swarga-rohanika Parva, Section III (Roy’s translation), p. 9. The chief of the gods says to Yudhishthira: “Here is the celestial river.… Plunging into it, thou wilt go to thine own regions (Paradise).” Having bathed, the hero “cast off his human body” and “assumed a celestial form”. ↑