Shloka 6
Aśoka-śāstra: Nārada’s Instruction on the Cessation of Śoka
Grief
प्राणेन गन्धवहन नेत्राभ्यामग्निमेव च । भ्रूभ्यां चैवाश्विनौ देवा ललाटेन पितृनथ
prāṇena gandhavahanaṃ netrābhyām agnim eva ca | bhrūbhyāṃ caivāśvinau devā lalāṭena pitṝn atha ||
阎若伐迦（Yājñavalkya）阐明灵魂出离之理：若生命之气（普拉那，prāṇa）由鼻而出，则往生于风神伐由（Vāyu），彼为香气之载者；若由双目而出，则得至火神阿耆尼（Agni）；若由双眉而出，则归于阿湿毗尼双神（Aśvin）；若由额间而出，则抵达祖灵之界——皮特里（Pitṛs）。此教示将死亡安置为有德序的转渡，而非纷乱：由微细之通道而行，随其所应之神圣归宿而定。
याज्ञवल्क्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that the point of exit of prāṇa at death corresponds to specific divine realms—Vāyu, Agni, the Aśvins, or the Pitṛs—presenting death as a structured transition governed by subtle physiology and cosmic order.
In Śānti Parva’s instructional setting, Yājñavalkya is expounding a doctrinal account of ‘utkrānti’ (departure of life-breath), mapping bodily exit-points to the deities or ancestral realm that the departing being is said to attain.