The equal annihilation of the wicked (_dhvamsanti_) and unorthodox (_dhvamsate_) is to be noticed.

They are here subject neither to hell nor to rebirth, but they "become dust and perish" (_ib_.8.

9).
Throughout the whole legal literature one will find this same antithesis of views in regard to the fate of good and bad, although it is seldom that annihilation is predicated of the latter.

Usually hell or rebirth are their fate--two views, which no one can really reconcile.

They are put side by side; exactly as in priestly discussion in India and Europe it still remains an unsettled question as to when the soul becomes immortal.[25] Occidental experience teaches how easy it is for such views to stand together unattacked, although they are the object of speculation.