HELL AND ITS TORMENTS 171 ful to his teacher and is not pleased with him, despises men, commits impurity with animals, contemns the Veda and Puranas, or tries to make gain by means of them in the markets, comes into Sabala." The same book continues its enumeration as follows: " A man who steals and commits tricks, who opposes the straight line of conduct of men, who hates his father, who does not like God and men, who does not honour the gems which God has made glorious and who considers them to be like other stones, comes into Krimlsa. Whoso does not honour the rights of parents and grandparents, and whoso does not do his duty toward the angels, and the maker of arrows and spear- points, come to Ldldbhaksha. The maker of swords and knives comes to Visasana. He who conceals his prop- erty, being greedy for the presents of the rulers, and the Brahman who sells meat or oil or butter or sauce or wine, comes to Adhomukhd. He who rears cocks and cats, small cattle, pigs, and birds, comes to Rudhi- randha." A further passage in the Vishnu Purana also says: " Public performers and singers in the markets, those who dig wells for drawing water, a man who cohab- its with his wife on holy days, who throws fire into the houses of men, or betrays his companion and then receives him, being greedy for his property, come to Rudhira. He who takes the honey out of the bee- hive comes to Vaitarani. Whoso takes away by force the property and women of others in the intoxication of youth comes to Krishna. Whoso cuts down the trees
