Sometimes a little variation occurs.

Thus, according to _Cat.

Br._ vi.5.4.8, the stars are women-souls, perhaps, as elsewhere, men also.

The converse notion that darkness is the abode of evil appears at a very early date: "Indra brought down the heathen, _dasyus_, into the lowest darkness," it is said in the Atharva Veda (ix.2.

17).[60] In the later part of the great 'Br[=a]hmana of the hundred paths' there seems to be a more modern view inculcated in regard to the fate of the dead.