The end.
After the war all the brothers
went to meet Dhirthrashtra to get his blessings. He was in sorrow thinking of
death all his sons but was consoled by
Yudhishtra as he was also in sorrow of losing all his sons and army and
friends. Dhirthrashtra wanted to hug each of them in blessings. But when
Bheema’s turn came Krishna did not allow him but put an iron doll looking like
Bheema to hug by Dhirthrashtra who when hugging crushed it to pieces. Then
cried aloud saying he killed Bheema. Krishna then said that he had put a doll
and not real Bheema as he knew about the vengeance in Dhirthrashtra’s mind.
Dhirthrashtra felt ashamed and requested pardon and blessed all of them. Then the Pandavas
went to meet Kanthari, the mother of Duryodhana who was the wife of Dhirthrashtra and mother
of all kauravas. She was also in sorrow and looked at the feet of Yudhishtra
and even though her eyes were blinded by
the cloth she wore her look made Yudhishtra’s
feet black.
Later Kanthari blessed them and
asked them to rule with justice and well beings of the subjects in mind.
After vanquishing his enemy
Yudhishtra was not very happy as all his relatives, friends, army etc have been
destroyed and lost. But Krishna had persuaded him to ascend the throne and
hence Yudhishtra crowned himself the King of all the lands of the Kauravas
which included their own, took over by the Kaurava, Duryodhana. He ascended the
throne at Hasthinapura. The Pandavas, led by Yudhishtra went to the death bed of Bheeshma who was
waiting for his auspicious time to die for his blessings. He blessed them whole
heartedly for a just and proper rule of the land under their care.
After some years Dhirthrashtra, Kanthari
and Kunti left for the forest to live a solitary life and Sanjaya followed them there. Dhirthrashtra asked
Sanjaya to leave them and he left them to live as ascetic there. Later they lived there for three years and
one day a fire engulfed the forest and all the three perished in that fire.
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