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=== ''Mahabarata'' ===
Dikisahkan di dalam wiracarita ''[[Mahabharata]]'' bahwa Pangeran [[Arjuna]], yang lahir dari benih Batara [[Indra]], dijemput dan diantar naik ke Swarga oleh [[Mātali|Matali]], kusir kereta kencana Batara [[Indra]], ayah kandung Arjuna. Di tengah perjalanan, Arjuna menyaksikan ribuan ''wimana'', kendaraan terbang surgawi, berseliweran di angkasa. Ia mendapatimelihat bahwa alam ituSwarga terang-benderang dengan sendirinya, tanpa perlu disinariditerangi cahaya matahari maupun rembulan, dan alam ituserta didiami para [[resi]], para pahlawan yang gugur di medan laga, orang-orangpara [[resi|''muni'']] yang sudah menuntaskanmenjalankan tapa brata beratkeras semasa hidup di dunia, para [[gandarwa]], para [[guhyaka]], dan para [[apsara]]. Ia melintasi beberapa daerah di Swarga sebelum akhirnya tiba di Amarawati, ibu kota pemerintahan Barata Indra.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Mahabharata, Book 3: Vana Parva: Indralokagamana Parva: Section XLII |url=https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m03/m03042.htm |access-date=25 Oktober 2022 |website=www.sacred-texts.com}}</ref><!--
InDi AmaravatiAmarawati, Arjuna beholdsmenyaksikan thekeasrian gardenstaman ofsari Nandana, thetempat favouritetamasya resortpara of the apsaras. Heapsara, observesditumbuhi thatpepohonan sacredsuci treesdan andbebungaan flowersdari ofsegala all seasons bloommusim. He isKedatangannya eulogiseddisongsong bydengan variouspuja-puji classespara ofpenghuni beingsSwarga, suchantara aslain deitiesdewa like thekembar [[AshvinsAswin|Batara Aswan dan Batara Aswin]], andlaskar thetaruna dewata [[MarutsMaruta]], theraja-raja royalyang sages,sudah headed''lengser-keprabon bymadeg-pandita'' diketuai Begawan [[Dilīpa|Dilipa]], andserta exaltedpara [[Brahmin|Brahmanasbrahmana]] mulia. HeArjuna isdihibur treatedalunan tomusik theyang mostpaling sacredsuci andmaupun profaneyang musicbercita ofrasa theduniawi finest gandharva,oleh [[Tumburu|Tumvuru]], andgandarwa observesyang thepaling dancespiawai, ofdan themenyaksikan mosttari-tarian enticingyang dipertunjukkan apsara-apsara apsarastermolek, suchantara aslain [[Menaka]], [[RambhaRamba (apsara)|RambhaRamba]], anddan [[UrvashiUrwasi]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Mahabharata, Book 3: Vana Parva: Indralokagamana Parva: Section XLIII |url=https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m03/m03043.htm |access-date=2022-10-25 |website=www.sacred-texts.com}}</ref>
TheWiracarita ''MahabharataMahabarata'' suggestsmenyiratkan thekeberadaan existencebeberapa oftingkat severalatau formsdaerah ordi regions of SvargaSwarga, each headedmasing-masing bydikepalai asatu deitydewa, suchmisalnya asBatara [[Surya]], Batara [[Kubera]], anddan Batara [[VarunaBaruna]]. IndraDikatakan isbahwa statedBatara toIndra satememuaskan allsegala thehasrat desireshati ofpara thepenghuni residentsSwarga. MenPria and women enjoy each other's pleasures without restriction,dan andwanita therebebas ismemadu nokasih formtanpa ofrasa jealousycemburu betweensatu thesama sexeslain.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sutton |first=Nicholas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rFyUHC-ORp4C&dq=svarga+mahabharata&pg=PA261 |title=Religious Doctrines in the Mahābhārata |date=2000 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |isbn=978-81-208-1700-5 |pages=261 |language=en}}</ref>
InDikisahkan thepula text,tentang perkataan Prabu [[NahushaNahusa]] opinesyang todisampaikannya kepada [[Yudhishthira|YudhisthiraYudistira]], that offeringbahwa charityberderma, speakingbertutur pleasingkata wordsyang menyukakan hati sesama, honestyberlaku jujur, anddan ''[[ahimsaahingsa]]'' allows onemenyanggupkan toorang achievemencapai heavenSwarga.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sutton |first=Nicholas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rFyUHC-ORp4C&dq=svarga+mahabharata&pg=PA261 |title=Religious Doctrines in the Mahābhārata |date=2000 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |isbn=978-81-208-1700-5 |pages=84 |language=en}}</ref>
=== ''Begawadgita'' ===
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In the ''[[Bhagavad GitaBhagawadgita|Begawadgita]]'', it is indicated that Svargamenyiratkan isbahwa notSwarga thebukanlah everlastingtujuan destinationakhir ofbagi thoseorang-orang whoyang hadsudah accumulatedmenumpuk ''punya.''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/875441094 |title=The Bhagavadgita: with the commentary of Sri Sankaracharya |date=2013 |publisher=Samata Books |others=Alladi Mahadeva Sastri |isbn=978-81-85208-08-4 |location=Madras |oclc=875441094}}</ref>
<blockquote>{{Blockquote|text=They,Sesudah havingmengenyam enjoyednikmat thatjagat spaciousSwarga worldnan ofluas Svargamembentang, theirdan meritmenghabiskan (punya)cadangan exhausted''punya'', enterturunlah themereka worldke ofjagat thefana, mortals;dan thusoleh followingkarena theitu Dharmamengikuti ofketentuan theDarma TriadTrimurti, desiringmenghasratkan (objects of) desireshasrat-hasrat, theymaka attainmereka tomencapai thetataran state of going and returningulang-alik.|title=[[Bhagavad Gita|Begawadgita]]|source=VerseAyat 9.21}}</blockquote> -->
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