The Religions of India c19.117

c19.117

Yet must one always remember that this is the Arhat’s death, the death of him that has perfected himself.¹ Buddha, like the Brahmans, taught hell for the bad, and re-birth for them that were not perfected. So in the *Kokāliya-sutta* a list of hells is given, and an estimate is made of the duration of the sinner’s suffering in them. Here, as if in a Brahman code, is it taught that ‘he who lies goes to hell,’ etc. Even the names of the Brahmanic hells are taken over into the Buddhist system, and several of those in Manu’s list of hells are found here.