King Yudhishthira the just, endued with great learning, became desirous of doing the last rites to the body of Vidura, and wished to cremate it duly. An invisible voice was then heard, saying, 'O king, this body which belonged to him called Vidura should not be cremated. In him is your body also. He is the eternal deity of Virtue.
धर्मराजश्च तत्रैव संचस्कारयिषुस्तदा। दग्धुकामोऽभवद् विद्वानथ वागभ्यभाषत॥ भो भो राजन्न दग्धव्यमेतद् विदुरसंज्ञकम्। कलेवरमिहैवं ते धर्म एष सनातनः॥