"'"'Uma said, "Thou hast many abodes in heaven, of diverse forms and possessed of every comfort and luxury. Why, O holy one, dost thou reside in the crematorium, abandoning all those delightful mansions? The crematorium is full of the hair and bones (of the dead), abounds with vulture and jackals, and is strewn with hundreds of funeral pyres. Full of carrion and muddy with fat and blood, with entrails and bones strewn all over it, and always echoing with the howls of jackals, it is certainly an unclean place."Mbh 13.141.4 · Mahabharata · ANUSASANA PARVA
Mbh 13.141.4
Mahabharata · translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.Isaiah 40:1 · Bible · Isaiah
When Allah's succour and the triumph comethQuran 110:1 · Quran · The Help
The heavy tidings grieved the godlike man: Swift to his succour through the ranks he ran. The dauntless king yet standing firm he found, And all the chiefs in deep concern around. Where to the steely point the reed was join’d, The shaft he drew, but left the head behind. Straight the broad belt with gay embroidery graced, He loosed; the corslet from his breast unbraced; Then suck’d the blood, and sovereign balm infused,[133] Which Chiron gave, and Æsculapius used.Iliad 4.19 · Iliad · 4
Then it vanished through the thong-hole of the door and was dissipated into thin air; but Penelope rose from her sleep refreshed and comforted, so vivid had been her dream.Odyssey 4.81 · Odyssey · 4
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