History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.198

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In the Ch. Up. V. 3. 2 the questions are put in a slightly different form: (1) do you know to what place men go from here, (2) how they return, (3) do you know where the path of devas and the path of the fathers diverge, (4) why the world never becomes full, (5) why in the 5th oblation water is called 'man.' The answers to these in Br. Up and Chān. Up are not identical, though very similar. A fire has five constituents, fuel, smoke, flame, live coals, sparks. In both Chān. Up. V. 10. 4-9 and Br. Up. VI. 2. 9-13 the fires are the same, but the constituents of each of these five differ slightly; compare, for example, Br. Up. VI. 2. 11 with Chān. Up. V. 3. 6. The first question in the Ch. Up. is answered by the mention of the two paths. The 2nd is answered in Chān. Up. V. 10. 3–5.²⁵¹³ The paths diverge (3rd question) after reaching the moon (Chān. Up. V. 10. 2 and 4–5), the 4th is answered in Chān. V. 10. 8. The fifth is answered by means of the statement on pancāgnividyā.