Vedic Mythology c9.s3.18

c9.s3.18

The idea of a formal judgment to which all the dead must submit, seems hardly traceable to the Vedic period. One or two passages of the RV. in which reference to it has been found¹¹, are too indefinite to justify such an interpretation. In the TA. (6, 5^) it is said that the truthful and untruthful are separated before Yama, but that he acts in the capacity of a judge, is not implied¹².