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( 27 ) While life remains let a man live happily, let him feed
on ghec even though he runs in debt; When once the body becomes ashes, how can it ever
return again? If he who departs from the body, goes to another world, How is it that he comes not back again, restless for
love of his kindred ? Hence it is only as a means of livelihood that Brah
mans have established here All these ceremonies for the dead, there is no other
fruit anywhere. The three authors of the Vedas were bufíuons, knaves
and demons. All the well known family of the Pandits, Jarphari,
Turphari, &c. And all she ubscene rites for the Queen coinmanded
in the Asvamedia, These were invented by Luffoons, and so all the
various kinds of presents to the priests, While the cating of flesh was similarly commanded
by night-prowling demons (Sarva-Darshana-Samgrala, Cowell and Gouph, pp. 10 and 11.)
These plcasure-sceking revilers of the Vedas were the Charvakas.
Dr. Rajendralal Mitra says in his preface to the Yoga-Sutras that in the Sama-Veda there is a reference to a Yati who condemned sacrifices, and whose wealth was transferred to Bhrigu. According to Aitareya-Brahmana some such Yatis were punished by being thrown before jackals.
