Shloka 383
उपवासफलात्मकविधिः — Upavāsa as Yajña-Equivalent Merit
Angiras Teaching
तत्क्षयादिह चागम्य माहात्म्यं प्रतिपद्यते । इतना ही नहीं
tatkṣayād iha cāgamya māhātmyaṃ pratipadyate |
そこで得た功徳が尽きると、彼はこの世に帰り、顕達して尊ばれる地位を得る。物語の文脈は、正しき行いの果報をこう描く—精錬された黄金のごとく輝き、光り映える天の車（ヴィマーナ vimāna）に乗って、梵天界（Brahmaloka）にて千年のあいだ敬われつつ住し、功徳が尽きれば人界に戻って要職を得る。すなわち、善行は高き天上の報いをもたらすが永遠ではなく、功徳はついには世における名誉と勢威として結実することを示すのである。
अंगियरा उवाच
Educational Q&A
Meritorious action produces exalted results—radiance, heavenly ascent, and honored residence in Brahmaloka—but those results are finite; when merit is exhausted, one returns and gains worldly eminence. The verse highlights both the power and the impermanence of karmic rewards.
Aṅgiras describes the posthumous फल (result) of a virtuous deed: the doer becomes brilliant, rides a vimāna, lives honored in Brahmaloka for a thousand years, and then, after the merit is spent, returns to this world and attains a significant, respected position.