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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 16]
sacrifice by rewarding them properly and stopping further procedure of the sacrifice. In the ceremony, Mahāmuni Vyāsadeva also was present, and he personally narrated the history of the Battle of Kurukṣetra before the King. Later on by the order of Vyāsadeva, his disciple Vaiśampāyana narrated before the King the subject matter of  Mahābhārata . He was much affected by his great father's untimely death and was very anxious to see him again, and he expressed his desire before the great sage Vyāsadeva. Vyāsadeva also fulfilled his desire. His father was present before him, and he worshiped both his father and Vyāsadeva with great respect and pomp. Being fully satisfied, he made charities most munificently to the  brāhmaṇas  present in the sacrifice.
TEXT 3
आजहारमयेवांसीनगङ्गायां भूरिदक्षिणान् । शारदतं गुरुं कृत्वा देवा यशस्विगोत्रराः ॥ ३ ॥
ājahārāśva-medhāṁs trīn gaṅgāyāṁ bhūri-dakṣiṇān śāradvataṁ guruṁ kṛtvā devā yatrākṣi-gocarāḥ
ājahāra—performed; aśva-medhān—horse sacrifices; trīn—three; gaṅgāyāṁ—the bank of the Ganges; bhūri—sufficiently; dakṣiṇān—rewards; śāradvataṁ—unto Kṛpācārya; guruṁ—spiritual master; kṛtvā—having selected; devāḥ—the demigods; yatra—wherein; akṣi—eyes; gocarāḥ—within the purview.
TRANSLATION
Mahārāja Parīkṣit, after having selected Kṛpācārya for guidance as his spiritual master, performed three horse sacrifices on the banks of the Ganges. These were executed with sufficient rewards for the attendants. And at these sacrifices, even the common man could see demigods.
PURPORT
It appears from this verse that interplanetary travel by the denizens of higher planets is easy. In many statements in  Bhāgavatam , we have observed that the demigods from heaven used to visit this earth to attend