Markandeyapurana 12.34

12.34

ataḥ paraṃ bhīmataraṃ taptakumbhaṃ nibodha me /
samantatastaptakumbhā vahnijvālāsamāvṛtāḥ //

“Next learn of me about the very dreadful Taptakumbha.[7] On all sides heated pitchers are surrounded with the flames of fire, and are filled with oil iron and powder which boil over on to the heaps of blazing fire. Into them the workers of iniquity are cast head-long by Yama’s servants.[8] They are boiled, and foul the water with the marrow that oozes from their bursting limbs. Terrible vultures pulling them out fracture the eye-bones of their bursting skulls; again they are dropped into the same pitchers by the impetuous birds; again they become united with the liquefied heads, limbs, sinews, flesh, skin and bones, by means of the oil in the seething vessel. Then being quickly and vigorously stirred up by Yama’s servants with a spoon, the sinners are churned up in the whirling pool of copious oil. Such is the Taptakumbha that I have fully described to thee, O father!”