Shloka 30
अग्नीषोमोत्पत्तिः
Agni–Soma Origin and the Brahmāgnīṣomīya Doctrine
देवयानचरो विष्णो: पितृयाणश्व॒ तामस: । द्वावेतौ प्रेत्य पन्थानौ दिव॑ चाधश्ष गच्छत:
devayānacaro viṣṇoḥ pitṛyāṇaś ca tāmasaḥ | dvāv etau pretya panthānau divaṃ cādhaś ca gacchataḥ ||
ພີສະມະກ່າວວ່າ: «ສໍາລັບສັດທັງຫຼາຍທີ່ຈາກໂລກນີ້ໄປ ມີສອງເສັ້ນທາງ: ເທວະຍານ (Devayāna) ເປັນທາງທິບ ນໍາໄປສູ່ໂລກຂອງວິສະນຸ (Viṣṇu) ແລະຈຶ່ງສອດຄ່ອງກັບສັດຕະວະ (sattva); ແລະ ປິຕຣະຍານ (Pitṛyāna) ເປັນທາງບັນພະບຸລຸດ ທີ່ຖືກກ່າວວ່າມີລັກສະນະຕະມັສ (tamas). ດ້ວຍສອງເສັ້ນທາງນີ້ ຜູ້ໜຶ່ງໄປສູ່ເທິງຟ້າ ແລະອີກຜູ້ໜຶ່ງລົງສູ່ສະພາບຕໍ່າ».
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhīṣma teaches that post-mortem destiny is described in terms of two broad trajectories: an upward, divine course (Devayāna) associated with purity and higher realization, and an ancestral course (Pitṛyāna) characterized here as tamasic, tending toward lower or less luminous outcomes. The verse frames ethical-spiritual quality as shaping one’s direction after death.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction-setting, Bhīṣma is advising Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and the consequences of conduct. Here he summarizes a cosmological-ethical map of the afterlife, distinguishing two routes by which departed beings are said to proceed—upward to higher worlds (linked with Viṣṇu) or downward to lower states.