[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v7.c95.196 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.196 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.196 - **Language:** English ### [v7.c95.196](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.196) ²⁵¹¹ The question about देवयान and पितृयाण is put in the Br. up. VI. 2. 2 in the following form: वेत्थो देवयानस्य वा पथः प्रतिपदं पितृयाणस्य वा। यत्कृत्वा देवयानं वा पन्थानं प्रतिपद्यन्ते पितृयाणं वा। अपि हि न ऋषेर्वचः श्रुतम्—द्वे सृती अशृणव पितॄणामहं देवानामुत मर्त्यानाम्। ताभ्यामिदं विश्वमेजत्समेति यदन्तरा पितरं मातरं च। इति। The verse द्वे सृती etc. is ऋ. X. 88. 15 (which reads द्वे सृती अशृणवं etc.) and तै. ब्रा I 4. 2-3 (which reads सृती...अन्तरापूर्वमपरं च केतुम्). द्यौः (heaven) and पृथिवी are respectively called father and mother in Rg. I. 164. 33 and I. 191. 6. - [Previous: v7.c95.195](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.195) - [Next: v7.c95.197](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.197) - [Up: v7.c95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95) ## Cites (3) - [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.taittiriya.1.4.2) — Sanskrit - [Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka.6.2.2) — Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.10.88.15) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.196](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.196) · Pramāṇa