Ashramavasika Parva

Fifteen years after the war, the blind Dhritarashtra can no longer bear living on the charity of the sons who killed his own. With Gandhari, Kunti and Vidura he retires to a forest hermitage to practise austerities, and Vidura dies there by merging his life into Yudhishthira. Vyasa grants the grieving families a single night in which the dead warriors of Kurukshetra rise from the Ganga to be seen and embraced once more. Two years later a forest fire takes Dhritarashtra, Gandhari and Kunti, and Yudhishthira performs their last rites.