History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.205

v7.c95.205

The Kauṣītaki Up (I. 2-3), however, speaks only of Devayāna and Pitṛyāna and has no third place for worms and birds &c. and states (vide n 2520 below) that worms &c. also come to the same world to which men return. Further, the stations of the Devayāna path (Agni, bright half of the month etc.) had been given a counterpart in the Pitṛyāna path in the Bṛ. Up. and Chān. Up. which made the moon the point of divergence for the two paths. The Kauṣītakī Up. omits all the preliminary stations up to the moon and brings all transmigrating beings to the moon (in I. 2). There are some other variations also that need not be dwelt upon here.