Owing

to his holy life, good works, and wise words, and after severe trials of temper, and patient endurance of all that the gods decreed to test his faith, they declared that he must ascend to heaven in a celestial car: but Mugdala hesitated. He asked first that the “holy ones” should make clear to him the advantages of heaven over earth where he was so busy in good and useful works. A long debate ensued (see Muir's Orig.