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Markandeyapurana 13.8

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 13.8

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Sanskrit

13.8

yāmyaśca puruṣo ghoro daṇḍahasto 'śaniprabhaḥ /
purato darśayan mārgamiti ehīti vagatha //

On a sudden a wind blew on me there, bringing gladness, deliciously cool, issuing from out of a pitcher of meal and sand.[1] Through contact with it all the men were relieved of their torments, and I too gained a bliss supreme, such as the celestial beings enjoy in Svarga. And with eyes fixed in a wide gaze of joy, in wonder at what this was, we saw at hand a peerless perfect man; and Yama’s dire servant, staff in hand, like Indra’s thunderbolt, was showing the path in front, and a voice came saying “come hither!” Then that man seeing the hell filled with hundreds of tortures, moved with compassion, addressed that servant of Yama.

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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