ciii ff., implies that belief in hell comes later than this period.
This is not so late a teaching.

Hell is Vedic and Brahmanic.] [Footnote 24: This, in pantheistic style, is expressed thus (Cvet.

4): "When the light has arisen there is no day no night, neither being nor not-being; the Blessed One alone exists there.

There is no likeness of him whose name is Great Glory."] [Footnote 25: Brihad [=A]ranyaka Upanishad, 2.4; 4.

5.] [Footnote 26: _Na pretya sa[.m]jn[=a] 'sti._] [Footnote 27: Some of the Upanishads have been tampered with, so that all of the contradictions may not be due to the composers.