The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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Chapter III
Yajnavalkya and Bhujyu
Next Bhujyu, the grandson of Lahya, questioned him.
"Yajnavalkya," said he, "we were travelling in the
country of Madra as religious students, when we came
to the house of Patanchala, of the line of Kapi. His
daughter was possessed by a gandharva. We asked him:
'Who are you?' He said: 'I am Sudhanvan, of the line of
Angiras.' While asking him about the limits of the
world, we said: 'Where were the descendants of
Parikshit?' And likewise I ask you, Yajnavalkya, where
were the descendants of Parikshit? Tell me, where were
the descendants of Parikshit?"
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Yajnavalkya said: "The gandharva, I suppose, told you
that they went where those who perform the Horsesacrifice
go." "And where do they go who have
performed the Horse- sacrifice?" "Thirty-two times the
space traversed by the sun's chariot in a day makes this
plane (loka); around it, covering twice the area, is the
world (prithivi); around the world, covering twice the
area, is the ocean. Now, as is the edge of a razor or the
wing of a fly, so is there just that much space between
the two halves of the cosmic shell. Through that opening
they go out. "Fire, in the form of a falcon, delivered
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