Skandapurana 7.4.52_253

7.4.52_253

ucchraye40 pātitāḥ41 stokaṃ kālaṃ viśrāmya vai punaḥ .
pātyante narake tasmin yāvat kṣīṇaṃ tadenasam .
eṣaiva vidhiranyeṣāṃ narakāṇāṃ mune smṛtaḥ42 . .2 1 . .
ya imaṃ43 bhṛśaduḥkhitopalambhaṃ44 sukṛtīnāmatidurgamācalam .
śṛṇuyāt prayataḥ kutūhalātmā na sa gacchennirayaṃ hi śālmalam45 ..22..

are thrown down from the height, and resting for a short time, / are cast down into that hell again until that sin of theirs is exhausted. / This very rule is remembered, O sage, for the other hells. / Whoever, being self-controlled and filled with earnest curiosity, listens to this tale of intense sorrow / which is like an impassable mountain to the righteous, will never go to the Śālmala hell.