The Himalaya

Location

Approximate The Garhwal–Kumaon Himalaya; the text names the range, not a peak

Note

Where the brothers fetch Marutta's gold, where Sanjaya goes after the fire, and the range the Pandavas cross on the great departure.

In the story

1. 45The horse sacrificeParikshit is born dead and revived; Arjuna follows the horse round the land and is killed by his own son; a mongoose mocks the sacrifice
2. 47The dead come out of the riverVyasa calls the dead up from the Ganga for one night; two years later a forest fire takes Dhritarashtra, Gandhari and Kunti
3. 49The great departureParikshit is crowned; the five brothers and Draupadi walk out of the world and fall one by one on the way to Meru

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