Note 104 — Volume II. (continued 3)

At the same time this seems to be a real belief of the Santâls. Hunter, Rural Bengal, 210; and see Tylor, Primitive Culture, II., 97, and Professor Max Müller writes:—“In the Vedic accounts of hell a pit (karta) is mentioned into which the lawless are said to be hurled down (Rig Veda, IX., 73, 8), and into which Indra casts those who offer no sacrifice (Rig Veda, I., 121, 13). One poet prays that the Adityas may preserve him from the destroying wolf and from falling into the pit (Rig Veda, II., 29, 6). In one passage we read that those who break the commandments of Varuna and who speak lies are born for that deep place (Rig Veda, IV., 5, 5.).” Cf. Basor, 7. ↑