Vedic Mythology c9.s1.3

c9.s1.3

The dead man was supposed to go with the smoke to the heavenly world (AGS. 4, 4⁷)⁶. The way thither is a distant path on which Pūṣan protects and Savitṛ conducts the dead (10, 17⁴). The sacrificial goat which precedes and announces the deceased to the fathers, passes through a gulf of thick darkness before reaching the third vault of heaven (AV. 9, 5¹·³; cp. 8, 1⁸).