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श्राद्धपर्वन् (zrAddhaparvan)

 
Mahabharata
English
Śrāddhaparvan (ºva), “the section relating to the Śrāddha, ” the 87th of the minor parvans of Mhbhr. § 10 (Parvas.): I, 2, 349.--§ 620: Kṛshṇa censured Gāndhārī, saying that this vast carnage had taken place by her fault, through her son Duryodhana
and told her not to grieve (“the cow brings forth offspring to bear burthens… the Śūdrā woman to increase the number of servitors… a princess, like thee, brings forth sons to be slaughtered”). Gāndhārī remained silent. Requested by Dhṛtarāshṭra, Yudhishṭhira said that one billion 660, 020, 000 men had fallen
and 24, 165 had escaped
the fallen had all attained to regions like those of Indra (specifying those who had attained to G., Gh., Brahmaloka, and Uttarakurus). Yudhishṭhira said that in the forest he had obtained the gift of spiritual vision from D.-ṛ. Lomaśa. Urged by Dhṛtarāshṭra, Yudhishṭhira ordered Sudharman, etc. (), to cause the funeral rites of the slain () to be duly performed
they burned them upon funeral pyres
the Pitṛmedha-rites were performed for some of the illustrious dead
by the noise of sāmans, ṛcs, and lamentations all creatures became stupefied that night. Then Yudhishṭhira and Dhṛtarāshṭra proceeded towards the Gaṅgā (XI, 26). The Kuru ladies, etc., performed the water-rites for their fellow-kinsmen at the Gaṅgā. Kuntī, in a paroxysm of grief, disclosed the truth about Karṇa's birth () to her sons. The Pāṇḍavas grieved, and Yudhishṭhira lamented, hearing that Karṇa was his elder brother (). Yudhishṭhira caused Karṇa's wives, etc., to be brought before him, and with them performed the water-rite in honour of Karṇa (XI, 27).