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(28) 1. . ln Rig Veda, Ashtaka 3, Adhyaya 3, Varga 21, Rik 14, people are mentioned who lived in Kikata or Magadha, and who condemned Yajna, Dana, &c.
Again, gentlemen, our forefathers in ancient India were not all the advocates of the philosophy of Badarayana. They were not all believers in one neuter Brahman. There were many of them who sạid like Kapila “satur;" " Isvara has not been proved."
la Rig Veda Mandala 8, Adhyayą 10, Sukta 89. Rik 3, Bhargava Nami Rishi says that there is no such thing as Indrą. No one has seen him. Whom should we praise when there is no Indra ? It is simply Lokavada that they say that there is such a thing as Indra. In reality there is none.
In Rik 4, Indra tries to prove his existence and says that he brings destruction upon his enemies.
In Mandala 2, Adhyaya 2, Sukta 12, Rik 5, Grit: Samada Rishi says that there are people who say there is no Indra, but that in fact there is one.
There were again people in ancient India who be. lieved like the Jains in a future life, but there were others who denied it. In the Brahmans, says Barth, the question is, sometimes asked if there is really another life. In Rig Veda, Ashtaka 6; Adhyaya 42 Varga 32, Rik 10, these is mention of Ahardrish Venkpata, i. e., uşurers who see the sun in this world, but who in the next go to a Loka where there is
