History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.671

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⁴⁰⁹ Vide William James in ‘Varieties of religious experience’ p. 264, where he says that the fear of the old-fashioned Hell fire was employed by Christianity to extract from it fruits for repentance and conversion value and Pringle-Pattison in ‘Idea of Immortality’ pp. 15–19. Vide for the Quranic ideas of Hell, SBE. vol IX p. 317 ‘Hell is a reward for the outrageous to tarry therein for ages. They shall not taste therein cool nor drink but only boiling water and pus’. Vide also SBE. vol. VI p 247 (Hell contains seven divisions), vol. VI p. 165 (for the misbeliever is the torment of hell fire), vol. XIV p. 317 and p. 340 (for boiling water, pus and fire). In the Quran Heaven was supposed to consist of seven divisions viz Garden of Eternity, Abode of peace, Abode of rest, Garden of Eden, Garden of Resort, Garden of pleasure, the Garden of the most High, the Garden of Paradise.