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18. BRAVA huisgrand-non, tanderly, he certainly, would have warned him, bat he had not done it. Therefore, P. concluded, his soul was no more existent. Vijayasimha replied that a soul cannot got. out of hell, just as a criminal shut up in a prison cannot get out! of it and communicate even with his best friends. 171, 10. P. said that his father had been & very good man and had become a Bramaņa ; accordingly he should be in heaven now; why did he not not come to teach him as he might have done, being a god I V. replied : as a very poor man of low origin, who emig. rates to a distant country and acquires there riches and honours, forgets his former relations and friends; 80 a god, enjoying the delights of heaven, ceases to care for those with whom he had lived on earth. 172, 13.-P. related that a robber who had been sentenced to death, was placed in an iron vessel which was hormetically closed. The man died, but no soul was observed to issue from the vessel. V. replied by relating an analogous case : a famous conch-blower had been put in a big iron vessel ; he then blew his conch, and the sound was heard outside, though there was no opening whatever by which it could have escaped, 173, 17.-P. said that a robber was once strangled, but his weight was found to be the same, before and after his death. V. replied that a bladder, filled with air and without it, was ascertained not to differ in weight.-P. said that a robber who had been sentenced to death, had been dinsected into minuto partioles, but among them no soul had been found. V. replied that a man had out up a piece of arani wood into the smallest particles without finding tho fire which inheres in the wood and oomes forth from it by churning. 174, 19. Vijayasimha baving thus reduoed Pingakosa to silence and finally established the pormanent existence of a soul different from the body, prooeeded to show that, on that premige, all the arguments were invalid which Pingakosa had brought forward to dissuade Bikhin from his resolve to renounce the world and its pleasures. The happiness of a perfeot ascetio is infinitely greater than that of an universal monaroh. 170, 12. By this discussion both Brahma. datta and Pingakesa were awakened. The latter then asked Vijayasimha to' explain the differance' of mèrit and demerit and Whoir oudos. The follrya put the matter in a clear light, upon
