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Bhima Swarga
Indonesian-Balinese.
‘Dreadful
going to the abode of the gods’.
Name of the
Balinese variant of
Bhima,
an
episode of the
Indian
epic
Mahabharata, in which the protagonist
Bhima,
the second son of
Pandu and
thus
of the
Pandavas.
Instigated by his mother Kunti and accompanied by
his brothers and
two loyal servants
named Twalen (with a black checkered loin cloth) and Mredah (with a
red checkered loin cloth), he sets off on a journey to
hell,
in order to rescue the souls of his father
Pandu
and the mother of his
youngest brothers, Madri. On arrival in hell, Bhima
finds
his parents being boiled in a huge hot water bath. He fights off the
demons of hell and after
having saved them, he brought them to heaven, where he got in a
fight with gods who refused them entrance.
Bhima is killed in heaven, though later restored back to life by the
highest deity and given the
amrita,
i.e. the
Elixir of Immortality,
to
drink.
See also POSTAGE STAMP.
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