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Markandeyapurana 10.62

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 10.62

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Sanskrit

10.62

ūrdhvaśvāsānvitaḥ so 'tha dṛṣṭibhaṅgasamanvitaḥ /
tataḥ sa vedanāviṣṭastaccharīraṃ vimuñcati //

“Then Tama’s officers, terrific, foul-smelling, carrying hammers and maces, hard-hearted, approach the false man. When they meet his eyesight, trembling seizes him, and he bewails without ceasing his brother, mother, and children. His voice seems thick, O father! and monotonous; and his sight wanders through terror; and his mouth grows dry with his breathing; his breathing grows loud; his sight fails; next he is pervaded with pains; then he quits the body. Preceded by the vital airs he assumes another body, similar to the former, produced by the actions of the former, intended for chastisement, born of no mother and father, like the previous one, with the periods of life and death conformable thereto.

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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