ABSTRACT
Having studied the setting, we may now proceed to a consideration of the personages appearing in hell and the tortures they suffer. The comparison with the Miraj revealed general features of resemblance in this respect, such as the observance, in the infliction of the tortures, of what Dantists aptly term the law of the contrapasso. Other analogies in the systems of punishment may be passed over as being due possibly to parallel and independent imitation of the mediaeval lex talionis. 188 More interesting is the resemblance of picturesque detail to be found in actual episodes of the two descriptions.
