Shloka 4
Aśoka-śāstra: Nārada’s Instruction on the Cessation of Śoka
Grief
जिसके प्राण गुदामार्गसे निकलकर ऊपरकी ओर जाते हैं, वह मित्रदेवताके उत्तम स्थानको पाता है। कटिके अग्रभागसे प्राण निकलनेपर पृथ्वीलोककी और दोनों जाँघोंसे निकलनेपर प्रजापतिलोककी प्राप्ति होती है ।।
gudāmārgāt prāṇā ūrdhvaṃ niṣkramya mitradevatānām uttamaṃ sthānaṃ prāpnoti | kaṭy-agrabhāgāt prāṇe niṣkrānte pṛthivīlokaḥ, ubhābhyāṃ jaṅghābhyāṃ niṣkrānte prajāpati-lokaḥ prāpyate || pārśvābhyāṃ maruto devān, nābhyām indratvam eva ca | bāhubhyām indram evāhur, urasā rudram eva ca ||
阎若婆迦阐明道：“关于死后行程的法则说：人死之后所至之处，取决于生命之气离身的‘出口’。若生命之气由肛道上行而出，则到达密多罗诸神的殊胜住处；若由髋部前方而出，则得至大地之世；若由双大腿而出，则得至生主波罗阇钵底之界。若由两胁（肋旁）而出，则往赴风神摩卢多；若由脐而出，则得因陀罗之位；若由双臂而出，亦得因陀罗之位；若由胸而出，则至鲁陀罗之界。”
याज्ञवल्क्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches a cosmological-ethical mapping between the ‘exit’ of prāṇa at death and the realm attained thereafter—Mitra-deities, Earth, Prajāpati, Maruts, Indra, or Rudra—implying that one’s inner discipline and final state of being shape the post-mortem trajectory.
In Śānti Parva’s instructional setting, Yājñavalkya is delivering a doctrinal explanation about death and the afterlife, listing specific bodily points through which prāṇa is said to depart and the corresponding divine worlds reached.