Shloka 23
Adhyāya 32: Tāpasānāṃ Darśanaṃ — Ascetics Seek to Identify the Pāṇḍavas
इस प्रकार क्रमश: वे सभी शीलवती पतिव्रता क्षत्राणियाँ इस शरीरसे मुक्त हो पतिलोकको चली गयीं ।।
divyarūpasamāyuktā divyābharaṇabhūṣitāḥ | divyamālyāmbaradharā yathā sāṃ patayas tathā ||
Vaiśaṃpāyana said: In due order, all those virtuous, faithful Kṣatriya women, released from their bodies, went to the world of their husbands. Endowed with celestial forms and adorned with divine ornaments, wearing heavenly garlands and garments, they became like their husbands themselves—sharing the same radiant, exalted state.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights pativratā-dharma—steadfast fidelity and virtue—as a powerful ethical ideal whose fruit is portrayed as shared posthumous elevation: the wives attain a divine state comparable to that of their husbands.
The virtuous Kṣatriya women, having died, are described as assuming celestial forms with divine ornaments, garlands, and garments, and proceeding to the realm of their husbands, becoming like them in splendor and status.