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( 28 ) In 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 Brahınan. There were many of them who said like Kapila "feufel," "Isvara has not been proved."
In Rig Veda Mandala 8, Adhyaya 10, Sukta 89. Rik 3, Bhargava Nami Rishi says that therc is no such thing as Indra. 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 ludra. In reality there is none.
In Rik 4, Indra trics to prove his cxistence and says that he brings destruction upon his enemics.
In Mandala 2, Adhyaya 2, Sukta 12. Rik 5, GrilSamada Rishi says that there are people who say there is no Indra, but that in fact there is onc.
There were again pcoplc in ancient India who believed 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 4, Varga 32, Rik 10, there is mention of Ahardrishi Venknata, i. ., usurers who see the sun in this world, but who in the next go to a Loka where there is
