[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.c95.217 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.217 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.217 - **Language:** English ### [v7.c95.217](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.217) One of the most important passages in the Upaniṣads on conduct fashioning the life that would follow is the Chān. Up. V. 10. 7-8 which may be rendered as follows:²⁵²³ Those whose conduct has been good will quickly attain some good birth, the birth of a brāhmaṇa, of a kṣatriya or of a vāiśya But those whose conduct has been evil will quikly attain an evil birth, the birth of a dog or a hog or a cāṇḍāla. Those that do not go by either of the two paths become those small creatures (worms, flies &c) that are continually returning and whose destiny may be said to be 'to live and die' Theirs is a third place (apart from the two paths). Therefore the yonder world does not become full. Hence one should be disgusted (with this Saṃsāra). - [Previous: v7.c95.216](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.216) - [Next: v7.c95.218](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.218) - [Up: v7.c95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95) ## Cites (1) - [Chāndogyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya.5.10.7) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.217](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.217) · Pramāṇa