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Markandeyapurana 12.22

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 12.22

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Sanskrit

12.22

yāvadvarṣasahasrāṇi na teṣāṃ sthitirantarā /
ghaṭīyantreṣu caivānyo baddhastoye yathā ghaṭī //

“Listen also while I speak of the hell Apratiṣṭha, the occupants of which hell undergo intolerable pain. Those wheels are there indeed, and jar and well-ropes on the other side, which have been constituted causes of pain to men who engage in sin. Some human beings mounted on the wheels whirl around there; for thousands of years no other condition is theirs; and then another man is bound to the jar and well-rope, as the jar in the water. Human beings whirl around, continually spitting out blood, with blood pouring from their faces, and with eyes streaming with tears. They are visited with pains that are beyond endurance by living creatures.

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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