Adhyaya 210

Two brāhmaṇa renunciants travel with a cloth bundle of bones meant for ritual immersion. Reaching the Indraprastha region on the Yamunā, they fall asleep. A dog, prowling for food, snatches the bundle, tears it open, and drops the bones into the river—thus, unintentionally, the immersion is accomplished at the Kośalā tīrtha. At once Mukunda appears in a divine aerial chariot, bows to his guru Vedāyana, and declares that the tīrtha’s power has destroyed the sin bound up with guru-offense. Though he had been slain by the barber Caṇḍaka and carried to Saṃyamanī, Kośalā’s merit opened for him a heavenly destiny. Mukunda recounts Yama’s messengers, the torments of hells such as Raurava, and Yama’s teaching—grounded in Brahmā’s mandate—on the dreadful consequences of betraying one’s guru or neglecting one’s parents. The chapter ends by linking Mukunda’s liberation to past hospitality and properly performed funerary rites for a visiting brāhmaṇa, establishing Kośalā as a “king of tīrthas” within the glorification of Kāliṃdī.