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Markandeyapurana 10.76

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 10.76

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Sanskrit

10.76

dvādaśāhāt paraṃ ghoramāyasaṃ bhīṣaṇākṛtim /
yāmyaṃ paśyatyatho jantuḥ kṛṣyamāṇaḥ puraṃ tataḥ //

“Being led off he sees his own abode for twelve days and he enjoys the water, cake &c. that are offered on the earth. After twelve days, the man who is being carried off, next sees Tama’s city, awful, made of iron, terrible in appearance. Immediately he has gone there he beholds Tama, with fiery red eyes, like to a mass of broken collyrium; in the midst of Death, the destroyer Time and others; his mouth gaping with projecting teeth, his countenance dreadful with frowns; a lord, surrounded by hundreds of deformed, horrible and crooked diseases; busy in awarding punishment, with long arms, a noose in his hand, very formidable. Then the living being takes the happy or miserable course decreed by him. But the false witness goes to Raurava, and the man who is untruthful. Listen while I describe the nature of that Raurava.

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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