Thus did all those great persons disappear with their vehicles and animals and with all their followers. After all of them had departed, the great sage, who was standing in the waters of the sacred rivers, viz., Vyasa of great virtue and energy, that benefactor of the Kurus, then addressed those Kshatriya ladies who had become windows, and said these words, 'Let those amongst these foremost of women who are desirous of attaining to the regions acquired by their husbands cast away all idleness and quickly plunge into the sacred Bhagirathi. Hearing these words of his, those foremost ladies, placing faith in them, took the permission of their father-in-law and then plunged into the waters of the Bhagirathi.