[The Religions of India by Edward Washburn Hopkins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Religions of India CHAPTER VI 5/64
The fathers that died of old are cared for by him as he sits drinking with the gods beneath a fair tree (X.135.
1-7).
The fire that devours the corpse is invoked to depart thither (X.16.
9). This place is not very definitely located, but since, according to one prevalent view, the saints guard the sun, and since Yama's abode in the sky is comparable with the sun in one or two passages, it is probable that the general idea was that the departed entered the sun and there Yama received him (I.105.9, 'my home is there where are the sun's rays'; X.154.
4-5, 'the dead shall go, O Yama, to the fathers, the seers that guard the sun').
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