Shloka 29
Adhyaya 26 — Madālasa Names Alarka and Reorients Him Toward Kshatriya Duty
पितरो देवलोकस्थास्तथा तिर्यक्त्वमागताः ।
तद्वन्मनुष्यतां याता भूतवर्गे च संस्थिताः ॥
pitaro deva-loka-sthās tathā tiryaktvam āgatāḥ / tadvan manuṣyatāṃ yātā bhūta-varge ca saṃsthitāḥ //
「祖霊は神々の世界に住することもあれば、同様に畜生の境涯へ赴いたこともあり得る。さらに同じく、人としての位を得た者もあれば、諸々の存在類（bhūtas）の中に置かれている者もある。」
FAQs
Because the departed may exist in varied states, śrāddha/tarpaṇa is framed as universally beneficial—supporting ancestors regardless of their post-mortem destination.
Touches cosmological worldview (loka-vyavasthā) but remains within Anucarita/dharma instruction rather than formal Sarga/Manvantara exposition.
The verse encodes a ‘networked’ cosmos: offerings act as subtle transfers (saṃbandha) across planes. It also implies compassion beyond certainty—ritual as a hedge against epistemic limits about the dead’s condition.