On a soft couch rests,
Drinking pure water,
Who dies in battle, as you and I have seen,[997]
His father and mother supporting his head,
His wife[998] ... at his side,—
the spirit of such a one is at rest. The circumstances attending death presage in a measure the individual's life after death.
But he whose corpse remains in the field,
As you and I have seen,
His spirit[999] has no rest in the earth.
The one whose spirit is not cared for by any one,