If I could rewrite the story, therefore, I would make it so that when Yudhisthir scales the mountain and gets to the top, he finds nothing. No heaven. No golden chariots welcoming him. No heaven gates opening. Nothing. He just goes to the top, realizes that his vanity was no different to that of Arjun’s, and falls to his death just like his brothers and wife. After all, that was what must have really happened.
