Those men who take birth in orders other than human beings, by growing up in view of the religions ceremonies of Brahmanas devoted to the duties of their own caste and desirous of doing good to all creatures, succeed through the help of such purificatory rites, in ascending upwards. Indeed, struggling, they at last attain the sam? regions with thcsc pious Brahmanas. Indeed, they go to the celestial region. This is the Vedic Shruti.
अन्यथा प्रतिपन्नास्तु विवृद्धा ये च कर्मणः। स्वकर्मनिरतानां च ब्राह्मणानां शुभैषिणाम्॥ संस्कारेणोर्ध्वमायान्ति यतमाना: सलोकताम्। स्वर्गे गच्छन्ति देवानामित्येषा वैदिकी श्रुतिः॥