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# Skandapurana 7.5

Skandapurāṇa 7.5

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.5.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p1)

pūrvavartī pṛṣṭhaḥ (adhyāyāḥ 31 - 40) āgāmī pṛṣṭhaḥ (adhyāyāḥ 51 - 60)

> Previous page (chapters 31–40) Next page (chapters 51–60)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p2)

adhyāyāḥ 41 - 50

> Chapters 41–50  
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### [7.5.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p3)

suśarmovāca

> Suśarman said:  
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### [7.5.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p4)

ataḥ paraṃ pravakṣyāmi asipatravanaṃ punaḥ1 .  
narakaṃ pāpakṛdduḥkhaṃ2 sarvasatvabhayaṃkaram .. 1 . .  
asipatra3 iti khyātā vṛkṣāstatra durāsadāḥ .  
bahavaḥ sumahāśākhā ghanāścoccāśca4 te bhṛśam . .2..

> Hereafter I shall describe further the Sword-Leaved Forest, / a hell that causes sorrow to sin-doers and strikes fear into all beings. // 1  
> Trees renowned as 'Sword-Leaved' are there, inaccessible, / numerous, with immense branches, dense, and exceedingly lofty. // 2  
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### [7.5.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p5)

teṣāṃ patrāṇi ghorāṇi tīkṣṇānyasinibhāni ca .  
āyasebhyo viśiṣṭāni na ca tānyāyasāni hi5 ..3 ..

> Their leaves are dreadful, sharp and like sword-blades, / superior to iron ones, yet they are not indeed made of iron. (3)  
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### [7.5.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p6)

9 sahasraṃ ca  
- gha.,.. śca caturaḥ -  
kha. . 10..  
pātrakārī - ka. . 11 kumbhapācaka eva  
tau ( ca) - ka.  
gha. . 12 agnidātā -  
kha. . 13 duranta (?)  
. 14 tāpaṃ - ka. .

> \[Apparatus readings: 9 sahasraṃ ca - gha., ..śca caturaḥ - kha. . 10.. pātrakārī - ka. . 11 kumbhapācaka eva tau (ca) - ka. gha. . 12 agnidātā - kha. . 13 duranta (?) . 14 tāpaṃ - ka. .\]  
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### [7.5.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p7)

15 kumbhisasākhyaduḥkhapākaṃ  
- ka. .  
1 tataḥ  
- kha. . 2 pāpināṃ duḥkhaṃ -  
kha. . 3 asipatrā -  
gha. . 4 manoduḥkhakarāśca - gha.  
. 5 tānyāyatāni ca - kha.  
.

> \[Apparatus readings: 15 kumbhisasākhyaduḥkhapākaṃ - ka. . 1 tataḥ - kha. . 2 pāpināṃ duḥkhaṃ - kha. . 3 asipatrā - gha. . 4 manoduḥkhakarāśca - gha. . 5 tānyāyatāni ca - kha. .\]  
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### [7.5.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p8)

260

> 260  
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### [7.5.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p9)

taikṣṇyāttāni viśiṣṭāni chedane ca mahāmate .  
taiḥ patrairācitāścaiva tathā kaṇṭakinaśca6 te ..4. .  
jantavastatra rakṣobhiḥ pāpakarmanibandhanāḥ7 .  
vadhyamānāsimuśalaistathaivānyairmahāyudhaiḥ8. .5. .

> They are superior in sharpness and in cutting, O highly intelligent one. / Those \[trees\] are covered with such leaves and are thorny. (4) / Creatures bound there by sinful deeds by rākṣasas, / being beaten with sword-blades, clubs, and other great weapons, (5)  
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### [7.5.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p10)

agninā dahyamānāśca vṛkṣāṃstān saṃprayānti9 te .  
tānāgatān samīkṣyaiva parṇāni prapatantyuta10 . . 6 ..

> and scorched by fire, flee to those trees. / Seeing them arrived, the leaves fall down upon them; (6)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p11)

mahāgurūṇi tīkṣṇāni vinikṛntanti11 tām̐śca ha .  
te nikṛttaśirogrīvā deśāttasmāt prayānti vai . .7..

> very heavy and sharp, they cut them to pieces. / With their heads and necks severed, they flee from that place. (7)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p12)

te gatā12 rākṣasairbhūyo bhūyo vṛkṣairdurāsadaiḥ .  
yātyante13 varṣakoṭīstu tatra pañca suduḥkhitāḥ ..8. .  
tato vimuktāstebhyaste ucchrayān saṃviśanti hi .  
viśrāntāstatra te sarve14 ucchrayānnarake punaḥ . .9..

> Having gone, they are tormented again and again by rākṣasas and unreachable trees / for fifty million years, intensely sorrowful. (8) / Then, released from them, they indeed enter the heights. / Having rested there, all of them \[fall\] from the heights into hell again. (9)  
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### [7.5.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p13)

pātyante vivaśā mūḍhā yāvat pāpaṃ kṣayaṃ gatam .  
ye tu taṃ narakaṃ ghoraṃ narā gacchanti pāpinaḥ . . 8.41.10 ..

> Helpless and bewildered, they are cast down until their sin is exhausted. / But as for those sinful men who go to that terrible hell, (10)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p14)

tāṃstehaṃ saṃpravakṣyāmi śṛṇuṣvāvahito dvija .  
vṛkṣaṃ yaḥ putrakṛtakaṃ vināśayati durmatiḥ ..1 1 ..

> I shall declare them to you; listen attentively, O twice-born: / the evil-minded one who destroys a tree that was raised like a son, (11)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p15)

ārāme vātha grāme vā vikrīṇāti ca durmatiḥ .  
niṣpāditaṃ tathā vṛkṣamāśrame pathi vā punaḥ . .1 2. .  
taḍāge vā tathodyāne devatāyataneṣu vā .  
gṛhe prapāyāmathavā nadyāstīre catuṣpathe .. 13 . .

> or the evil-minded one who sells a tree grown / in an orchard or a village, in a hermitage, or on a path, (12) / or at a reservoir, in a garden, or in temples, / in a house, at a water-kiosk, on a riverbank, or at a crossroads, (13)  
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### [7.5.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p16)

yatra vā tatra vā jātaṃ15 yo nāśayati durmatiḥ .  
pādapān gulmavallīrvā kṣupānatha tṛṇānyapi .. 14. .  
chāyāpuṣpaphalārthaṃ hi16 svakāryakaraṇāya vā17 .  
vināśayati yo mūḍhaḥ sa ca taṃ pratipadyate . .1 5..

> the evil-minded one who destroys trees grown anywhere whatsoever, / or bushes, creepers, shrubs, and even grasses, (14) / the fool who destroys them for the sake of shade, flowers, or fruit, / or to accomplish his own work, he falls into that \[hell\]. (15)  
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### [7.5.p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p17)

6 vai kaṭakena  
- ka. . 7 karmapākanibandhanāḥ -  
kha . 8 pādyaṃte ca mahāyasi-gha .  
9 saṃśrayanti -kha. 10 sma patantyuta  
- ka. . 11 vinivṛttāni -  
kha. . 12 gattvā -  
gha. . 13 pāttyante - ca.  
. 14 sattvā - gha. sarvāducchrayā...  
- ka. . 15 tān - gha.  
. 16 phalairyuktaṃ - ka.  
. 17 ca - gha. .

> \[Apparatus readings: 6 vai kaṭakena - ka. . 7 karmapākanibandhanāḥ - kha . 8 pādyaṃte ca mahāyasi - gha . 9 saṃśrayanti - kha. 10 sma patantyuta - ka. . 11 vinivṛttāni - kha. . 12 gattvā - gha. . 13 pāttyante - ca. . 14 sattvā - gha. sarvāducchrayā... - ka. . 15 tān - gha. . 16 phalairyuktaṃ - ka. . 17 ca - gha. .\]  
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### [7.5.p18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p18)

261

> 261  
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### [7.5.p19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p19)

yaścāpaharate18 mūlaṃ19 puṣpāṇi ca phalāni ca .  
ātmārthaṃ kāmasaṃpattau20 na devapitṛkāraṇāt21 .. 1 6..

> And he who takes roots, flowers, and fruits / for himself to fulfill desire, and not for the sake of gods or ancestors, (16)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.p20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p20)

nadīṃ yaścāvarudhnīyāt kūpānyaśca prapūrayet .  
yaśca parṇatvacāmarthe22 vṛkṣaṃ chindyānnarādhamaḥ .  
vināśayedvā taṃ vṛkṣaṃ sa ca taṃ pratipadyate .. 17. .  
yaśca chāyāsamāsannān23 jantūn vai saṃprabādhate .

> and the lowest of men who dams a river, fills up wells, / or cuts down a tree for its leaves or bark, / or destroys that tree—he falls into that \[hell\]. (17) / And he who severely harasses creatures that have settled in the shade, (18a-b)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.p21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p21)

svasthānaṃ ca samāsannān trāsayedvārayedapi . .18. .  
sarve te taṃ prapadyante24 socchrayaṃ narakaṃ mahat .  
uttīrṇāśca tato bhūyaḥ saṃsāraṃ yānti teśubhāḥ25 .. 1 9. .  
ya imaṃ śṛṇuyādatandritātmā narakaṃ pāpakṛtāmaśarmabhūtam .

> or frightens and drives away those that have reached his own abode, (18c-d) / all of them go to that great hell of heights. / And having emerged from there, those unwholesome ones enter saṃsāra again. (19) / Whoever, with vigilant mind, listens to this hell that is the source of suffering for evildoers, (20a-b)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.p22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p22)

na sa taṃ samupaiti puṇyakarmā26 viditātmā hyasipatranāmadheyam ..8.41.2 0 . .  
iti skandapurāṇe narakavarṇane asipatravanaṃ nāma ekacatvāriṃśodhyāyaḥ

> he of meritorious deeds, knowing the self, does not go to that hell named Asipatra. (20c-d) / Thus ends the forty-first chapter, named Asipatravana, in the description of hells in the Skandapurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.p23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p23)

suśarmovāca

> Suśarmā said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.p24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p24)

ataḥ paraṃ vaitaraṇīṃ nadīṃ pāpapraṇāśanīm1 .  
śṛṇuṣvāvahitaḥ2 putra pāpakarmabhayāvahām3 ..1 . .  
nadī vaitaraṇī putra ṭaṅkacchinnataṭā śubhā .  
keśāsthirudhirāpūrṇā mahākṣārarasā tathā4 . .2. .

> Hereafter, listen attentively, O son, to the river Vaitaraṇī, / which destroys sins and brings terror to those of sinful deeds. (1) / The river Vaitaraṇī, O son, whose banks are cut as if by chisels, \[though called\] auspicious, / is filled with hair, bones, and blood, and is full of burning alkali. (2)  
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### [7.5.p25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.p25)

ullumpakai5rgardabhakairmakaraiḥ kacchapairapi .  
śiśumāraiśca nakraiśca tantukai rākṣasairapi . . 3 . .  
mahādaṣṭrairmahākāyaiḥ piśitāśaiḥ samākulā6 .  
asipatraiśca tairvṛkṣai7stīrajātaiḥ8 samāvṛtā ..4..

> It is crowded with ullumpakas, gardabhakas, sea-monsters, tortoises, / porpoises, crocodiles, water-spiders, and rākṣasas, (3) / large-fanged, large-bodied, flesh-eating; / and it is surrounded by those Asipatra trees growing on its banks. (4)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.21)

18 yaścāpi harate  
- kha yasyāpa - gha. .  
19 mūḍhaḥ - ka. kha.  
. 20 kāmasampanno - gha.,..  
sanmatto - ka. . 21

> \[Apparatus readings: 18 yaścāpi harate - kha yasyāpa - gha. . 19 mūḍhaḥ - ka. kha. . 20 kāmasampanno - gha., ..sanmatto - ka. . 21\]  
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### [7.5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23)

dvijakāraṇāt - gha. . 22...  
rthena - kha. . 23

> \[Apparatus readings: dvijakāraṇāt - gha. . 22 ...rthena - kha. . 23\]  
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### [7.5.23\_26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_26)

chāyāṃ - ka. . 24 taṃ pratipadyante  
- kha. . 25 śubha - gha.  
. 26.?? mugrakarmā -  
gha. .

> \[Apparatus readings: chāyāṃ - ka. . 24 taṃ pratipadyante - kha. . 25 śubha - gha. . 26 .?? mugrakarmā - gha. .\]  
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### [7.5.23\_27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_27)

1 sarvapāpapraṇāśanīm  
- gha. . 2 śṛṇumeva hitaḥ -  
ka. . 3 bhayāvahaṃ - kha.  
. 4.. .stathā - ka.  
kha. . 5 ulmpakai -  
ka., uccapakṣai - gha.  
. 6 samākulaṃ - kha . 7 stathā vṛkṣai -  
gha. . 8 tīrajaiśca -  
kha. .

> \[Apparatus readings: 1 sarvapāpapraṇāśanīm - gha. . 2 śṛṇumeva hitaḥ - ka. . 3 bhayāvahaṃ - kha. . 4 ...stathā - ka. kha. . 5 ulmpakai - ka., uccapakṣai - gha. . 6 samākulaṃ - kha . 7 stathā vṛkṣai - gha. . 8 tīrajaiśca - kha. .\]  
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### [7.5.23\_28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_28)

262

> 262  
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### [7.5.23\_29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_29)

śaivalena ca dīrgheṇa vitāneneva saṃvṛtā9 .  
tasyāstīre vanaṃ ghoraṃ śarabharkṣasamākulam . .5. .  
vyāghradvīpisamākīrṇaṃ siṃhebhakharasaṃkulam10 .  
tatra duṣkṛtakarmāṇastairvyāghrādibhirarditāḥ . .6..

> It is covered with long moss, as if with a canopy. / On its bank is a terrible forest crowded with śarabhas and bears, (5) / teeming with tigers and panthers, filled with lions, elephants, and donkeys. / There, those of wicked deeds, afflicted by those tigers and the rest, (6)  
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### [7.5.23\_30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_30)

tāṃ nadīṃ sumahāghorāṃ pātyante11 duḥkhitāstataḥ12 .  
tatra te patitā vatsa tantukaiḥ13 śaivalena ca ..7..

> sorrowful, are cast down from there into that exceedingly dreadful river. / Having fallen there, my child, by the water-spiders and the moss, (7)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_31)

vitānena ca saṃnaddhā14 bhakṣyante tai(?)dibhiḥ  
.  
kṣārodakena dahyanto15 nanādayantaśca duḥkhitāḥ16 ..8..

> and entangled in the canopy, they are devoured by those \[creatures and\] others; / burned by the caustic water, screaming aloud, they are afflicted with pain. (8)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_32)

ṣaḍ varṣakoṭīḥ17 yātyante18 yāvat pāpasya saṃkṣayaḥ .  
tato muktāstūcchrayeṣu pātyante19 vai punaḥ punaḥ . .9..

> They are tormented for sixty million years until their sin is completely exhausted. / Then, freed, they are cast down into the heights again and again. (9)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_33)

viśrāntāstatra te sarve20 ye ucchrayān21 narake22 punaḥ .  
pātyante vivaśā mūḍhā yāvat pāpaṃ23 kṣayaṃ gatam24 . .8.42.1 0. .  
uttīrṇaḥ socchrayānetān saṃsāraṃ pratipradyate .  
tīrṇontameṣu25 ca punarnarakeṣu pṛthak pṛthak .

> Having rested there, all of them who \[fall\] from the heights into hell again, / helpless and bewildered, are cast down until the sin is exhausted. (10) / Having crossed over these heights, one returns to saṃsāra. / Having crossed over the last hells, one by one, (11a-c)  
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### [7.5.23\_34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_34)

koṭirekā tu kālasya varddhate hyuttarottaram . .1 1 . .  
ucchrayāṇāntu sarveṣāmekaikasya pṛthak pṛthak .  
sahasraṃ varddhate putra varṣāṇāṃ vai samāsataḥ ..1 2..

> the time increases by ten million years successively. (11d) / For each and every one of the heights, O son, / it increases in brief by a thousand years. (12)  
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### [7.5.23\_35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_35)

ye tu gacchanti taṃ ghoraṃ narakaṃ duṣṭacetasaḥ .  
śṛṇuṣva26 tānimān samyagucyamānānmayānagha . . 13 ..

> As for those evil-minded ones who go to that dreadful hell, / listen properly to them as they are described by me, O sinless one. (13)  
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### [7.5.23\_36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_36)

saritaṃ yobhiśapate yaścaināmavamanyate .  
yaśca nagnaḥ praviśati striyaṃ yaścātra gacchati27 . .14. .  
niṣṭhīvedatha mūtraṃ vā purīṣaṃ vāpyathotsṛjet .  
apaśca28 harate yastu kṣetrārāmajanopagāḥ .. 1 5. .

> He who curses a river, or who despises it, / and he who enters \[it\] naked, and he who approaches a woman there,  
> or who spits, or passes urine or feces \[in it\], / and who steals water meant for fields, gardens, and people,  
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### [7.5.23\_37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_37)

9...  
nābhisaṃvṛtā - ka gha,  
na ca (?) . 10... narasaṃkulam -  
ka. kha. gha . 11

> 9... nābhisaṃvṛtā - ka gha, na ca (?) . 10... narasaṃkulam - ka. kha. gha . 11  
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### [7.5.23\_38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_38)

yātyante - gha. . 12...  
stathā - kha. . 13

> yātyante - gha. . 12... stathā - kha. . 13  
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### [7.5.23\_39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_39)

ulvakaiḥ - gha- . 14 saṃbaddhā -  
ka . 15 dahyante - kha.  
. 16 rāvayantassu duḥkhitāḥ - kha-  
. 17 varṣakoṭiṃ bhṛśaṃ tadvai - ka.  
. 18 pācyante - ka.,  
pātyante (?) . 19 yātyante -  
kha. . 20 sarvā - ka-,  
gatvā - kha. . 21

> ulvakaiḥ - gha- . 14 saṃbaddhā - ka . 15 dahyante - kha. . 16 rāvayantassu duḥkhitāḥ - kha- . 17 varṣakoṭiṃ bhṛśaṃ tadvai - ka. . 18 pācyante - ka., pātyante (?) . 19 yātyante - kha. . 20 sarvā - ka-, gatvā - kha. . 21  
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### [7.5.23\_40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_40)

ucchraye - ka. . 22 narakaṃ -  
ka kha . 23 pāpaḥ - kha.  
. 24 gataḥ - kha. . 25 tīvrottameṣu  
- gha. . 26 śṛṇuṣve (ṣvai)  
- ka. kha. . 27...  
nugacchati - ka. gha.  
. 28 āpaśca - ka. kha.  
.

> ucchraye - ka. . 22 narakaṃ - ka kha . 23 pāpaḥ - kha. . 24 gataḥ - kha. . 25 tīvrottameṣu - gha. . 26 śṛṇuṣve (ṣvai) - ka. kha. . 27... nugacchati - ka. gha. . 28 āpaśca - ka. kha. .  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_41)

263

> 263  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_42)

apāṃ setuharaścaiva taḍāgasya ca bhedakaḥ .  
tathā puṣkariṇīnāṃ ca dūṣako yaśca mānavaḥ . . 16 ..

> and the destroyer of an embankment of waters, and the breaker of a reservoir, / and likewise the man who contaminates lotus-ponds,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_43)

duṣṭāmaduṣṭāmathavā yaśca nārīṃ pradūṣayet .  
padminīṃ yaśca29 harati nāśayedvāpi30 durmatiḥ .. 17..

> or who defiles a woman, whether wicked or not wicked, / and the evil-minded one who steals or destroys a lotus-lake,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_44)

sārthasya vātha jantorvā yo janturbhayamāvahet31 .  
te sarve narakaṃ ghoraṃ prapadyante narādhamāḥ . .1 8..

> or whichever creature causes terror to a caravan or to any creature— / all those lowest of men fall into the terrible hell.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_45)

ya imāmaśubhapraṇāśanīṃ śṛṇuyānnityamaśuddhabādhanīm32 .  
prayataḥ sa na yāti bhāvanīṃ33 saritaṃ vaitaraṇīmasaṅginīm34 . .19..

> Whoever, restrained, constantly listens to this \[account\] which destroys misfortune and removes impurities, / does not go to the fearful river Vaitaraṇī, unyielding \[to sinners\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_46)

iti skandapurāṇe narakavarṇane vaitaraṇīnāma dvicatvāriṃśodhyāyaḥ

> Thus ends the forty-second chapter, named Vaitaraṇī, in the description of hells in the Skandapurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_47)

ataḥ paraṃ pravakṣyāmi narakaṃ pāpanāśanam1 .  
ayoghanamitikhyātaṃ2 sarvaprāṇibhayaṅkaram3 . . 1 ..

> Beyond this, I shall describe the hell that destroys sins, / known as Ayoghana, causing terror to all living beings,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_48)

yatra te puruṣā ghorā yamābhā yamakiṅkarāḥ .  
mahābalā mahāsatvāḥ sarveyogeśvarāstathā . .2 ..

> where those terrible men, Yamakiṅkaras resembling Yama, / of great strength and great power, are all like masters of yoga.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_49)

ayaskārā yathā piṇḍamayasognipratāpitam .  
saṃdaṃśenābhisaṃgṛhya4 sthāpayitvāyase ghane ..3 . .  
abhighnanti ghanairanyaistathā tatrāpi jantavaḥ .  
hanyante rākṣasairghoraistarjayadbhiḥ5 sudāruṇam . .4. .

> Just as blacksmiths, taking a lump of iron heated in fire / with tongs and placing it upon a heavy iron \[anvil\], // / strike it with other heavy hammers, so too there creatures / are struck by terrible Rākṣasas threatening \[them\] most dreadfully.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_50)

varṣakoṭīstathā6 sapta yātitāḥ7 svena karmaṇā .  
ucchrayeṣu8 tathā ghorāṃ yātanāṃ prāpnuvanti te . .5..

> Driven by their own actions for seventy million years, / they thus experience terrible torment in the heights.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_51)

etad9 ye yānti puruṣāḥ socchrayaṃ narakaṃ mahat .  
tānahaṃ saṃpravakṣyāmi anirdeśyān narādhamān . .6. .  
29 yastu  
- kha. . 30 nāśayedvātha -  
kha. . 31 pathi sthāṃ vā gṛhe vāpi sarthānāṃ  
vā bhayaṃkaraḥ - kha. . 32.. .madharmavādhanīm  
- kha.,... vāhinīm -  
gha. . 33 bhāvinīṃ -  
gha. . 34 vimardinīṃ - gha.  
.

> Those men who go to this great, lofty hell— / I shall describe those lowest of men, unfit to be named:  
> 29 yastu - kha. . 30 nāśayedvātha - kha. . 31 pathi sthāṃ vā gṛhe vāpi sarthānāṃ vā bhayaṃkaraḥ - kha. . 32... madharmavādhanīm - kha.,... vāhinīm - gha. . 33 bhāvinīṃ - gha. . 34 vimardinīṃ - gha. .  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_52)

1 cātidāruṇaṃ  
- gha. . 2 ayojanamitikhyātaṃ -  
ka. ga.,... sana  
- gha. . 3 ...  
pāpibhayaṅkaram - gha. . 4.. .pi  
saṃgṛhya - ka. . 5 tarjayanti  
- kha. gha. . 6

> 1 cātidāruṇaṃ - gha. . 2 ayojanamitikhyātaṃ - ka. ga.,... sana - gha. . 3 ... pāpibhayaṅkaram - gha. . 4... pi saṃgṛhya - ka. . 5 tarjayanti - kha. gha. . 6  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_53)

koṭisamā - gha. . 7 pātitāḥ -  
ka., jāyante - gha.  
. 8 jāteṣu ca - gha.  
. 9 ete - ka., evaṃ -  
gha., etaṃ - kha.  
.

> koṭisamā - gha. . 7 pātitāḥ - ka., jāyante - gha. . 8 jāteṣu ca - gha. . 9 ete - ka., evaṃ - gha., etaṃ - kha. .  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_54)

264

> 264  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_55)

pādena10 hanyāt pitaraṃ mātaraṃ pūjyameva vā .  
anyāṃ11 kāñcit12 striyaṃ13 vāpi hastenātha kaśādibhiḥ14 ..7. .  
tathā pravajitaṃ15 caiva agniṃ vāpyatha laṃghayet .  
bālamarthakṛte yaśca mṛtyunā yojayettathā . .8..

> He who strikes his father, mother, or an elder with his foot, / or any other woman with his hand or with whips and the like; // / and likewise he who steps over a renunciant or fire, / and he who brings death upon a child for the sake of wealth;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_56)

striyaṃ vātha pumāṃsaṃ vā klībaṃ vānyannarādhamaḥ .  
bhrātṝn yaścābhi16 sandhatte17 dravye kasmiṃścideva hi ..9..

> or the lowest of men who deceives a woman, a man, / a eunuch, or others, or brothers, for the sake of any wealth whatsoever;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_57)

pitaraṃ vātha durbuddhirmātaraṃ bhaginīmapi .  
patiryaścaiva bhāryāṃ svāṃ putrāṃścaivābhisaṃdhayet18 .  
bhāryā patiṃ vā putrān19 vā teṣāṃ sā20 gatirucyate ..8.43.1  
0 . .

> or the evil-minded one \[who deceives\] his father, mother, or even his sister; / and a husband who deceives his own wife and sons, / or a wife \[who deceives\] her husband or sons—such is declared to be their destination.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_58)

kīlayedyaśca devārcā21 stīrthāni ca durātmavān .  
vidyāḥ śāstrāṇi divyāni teṣāṃ sā gatirucyate .. 11 . .  
ya imaṃ bahupāpayogakāraṇaṃ śṛṇuyānnityamasaukhyasarvadāraṇam .  
prayatassa22 na yāti taṃ bhayānakaṃ narakaṃ durgamayodhanāvatānakam . .1 2.. 7

> And the evil-minded one who desecrates images of deities, holy places, / sacred lores, and heavenly scriptures—such is declared to be their destination. // / Whoever, restrained, constantly listens to this cause of the conjunction of many sins, which tears away all misery, / does not go to that terrible, impassable hell Ayoghana.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_59)

iti skandapurāṇe narakavarṇane ayoghanaṃ nāma tricatvāriṃśodhyāyaḥ

> Thus ends the forty-third chapter, named Ayoghana, in the description of hells in the Skandapurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_60)

suśarmovāca

> Suśarman said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_61)

ataḥ paraṃ padmamahaṃ pravakṣyāmi sudurgamam .  
sukṛtīnāmalabhyaṃ ca duṣkṛtīnāṃ bhayāvaham ..1 ..

> "Beyond this, I shall describe the Padma \[hell\], exceedingly difficult to cross, / unattainable to those who perform good deeds and terrifying to doers of evil.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_62)

tatrāgnistāpano nāma dhamyamāna1 iva jvalan .  
jantavastatra tāpyante2 vahnivarṇā3 bhavanti ca . .2..

> There is a fire there named Tāpana, blazing as if being fanned by bellows; / creatures are heated there and become the color of fire.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_63)

padmapatranibhāssarve dhāmyamānāstatastataḥ .  
tasya madhye mahāstambho4 lauhaḥ5 samavatiṣṭhate ..3 ..

> All resembling lotus petals, being blown upon this way and that, / in the midst of it stands a great iron pillar.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_64)

10 pānena  
- gha. . 11 anyaṃ -  
ka. gha. . 12 kañcit -  
ka., kiṃcit - gha.  
. 13 priyaṃ - gha. .  
14 kaśādinā - ga. . 15 pravrajitāṃ  
- kha. . 16 bhrātṛvyaṃ vā -  
kha., bhrātṛbhyaścā -  
ga. . 17.. .ścāpi  
ndhatte - ka. ga.,...  
tisaṃdhatte - kha,...  
pisavṛte - gha . 18... tisaṃdhayet  
- ka. . 19 svaputrān -  
gha., svaputraṃ - kha.  
gha. . 20 kā - gha.  
. 21 devān kīlayate yaśca - kha.  
. 22 praṇataḥ sa - ka.  
ga. gha. .

> 10 pānena - gha. . 11 anyaṃ - ka. gha. . 12 kañcit - ka., kiṃcit - gha. . 13 priyaṃ - gha. . 14 kaśādinā - ga. . 15 pravrajitāṃ - kha. . 16 bhrātṛvyaṃ vā - kha., bhrātṛbhyaścā - ga. . 17... ścāpi ndhatte - ka. ga.,... tisaṃdhatte - kha,... pisavṛte - gha . 18... tisaṃdhayet - ka. . 19 svaputrān - gha., svaputraṃ - kha. gha. . 20 kā - gha. . 21 devān kīlayate yaśca - kha. . 22 praṇataḥ sa - ka. ga. gha. .  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_65)

1 dhūpamāna  
- gha. . 2 pātyante -  
gha. . 3 varma - kha .  
4 mahān stambho - gha. . 5 lohaḥ  
- ka. kha. gha.  
.

> 1 dhūpamāna - gha. . 2 pātyante - gha. . 3 varma - kha . 4 mahān stambho - gha. . 5 lohaḥ - ka. kha. gha. .  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_66)

265

> 265  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_67)

taṃ te gatvā pragūhanti6 sopyagniratidāruṇaḥ .  
evaṃ tatrāniśaṃ ghoraṃ yātitā7stūcchrayeṣvapi ..4..

> Going there, they embrace it, and it too is an exceedingly dreadful fire; / thus they are tormented day and night in that terrible place, even upon the heights.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_68)

narāstaṃ yānti niḥsaṅgaṃ8 ye tānme9 tvaṃ niśāmaya .  
gurubhāryā ca yo gacched gurusvaṃ vā10 hareta yaḥ ..5..

> Hear from me which men go helpless to that place: / he who approaches the wife of a guru, or who steals the property of a guru;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_69)

devadravyaṃ bhakṣayedyo11 nāśayedvā12 pyabhīkṣṇaśaḥ .  
brāhmaṇasvaṃ haredyaśca balāddhārayatepi vā ..6. .  
bāladravyāpahārī ca hartā vā strīdhanasya ca13 .  
klībām̐śca14 tyajate yaśca yo hanyāccharaṇāgatam15 ..7..

> and he who eats the property of a deity, or repeatedly destroys it; / and he who steals the property of a brahmin, or withholds it by force; // / and he who steals the property of a child, or steals the wealth of a woman; / and he who abandons eunuchs, and he who slays one who has sought refuge;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_70)

dhanaṃ cāsyābhimanyeta16 devadravyaharaśca17 yaḥ18 .  
sarvabhakṣa yaḥ syād vai yaśca pānīyavikrayī . .8 ..

> and he who covets his wealth; and he who steals the property of a deity; / he who eats everything indiscriminately, and he who sells water.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_71)

somavikrayikaścaiva agnayutsādaka19 eva ca .  
agnipraharaṇo20 yaśca viṣapraharaṇa21śca yaḥ . .9. .  
aśastraṃ yaśca saṃgrāme hanyācchastreṇa mānavaḥ .  
yācamānaṃ tathā23 caiva upaviṣṭamathāpi vā24 ..8.44.1  
0 . .

> And whoever is a seller of Soma, and whoever extinguishes sacred fires, / and whoever strikes with fire, and whoever strikes with poison; / and that man who slays in battle an unarmed person with a weapon, / or one who is begging for mercy, or even one who is seated;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_72)

parāṅamukhaṃ ca saṃsaktamanyena25 saha vādinam .  
ete sarve narāstatra gacchantyakṛtabuddhayaḥ ..1 1 . .  
ya idaṃ26 śṛṇuyāt kṛtāntasadma prayato nityamanekaduḥkhasadma27 .  
sa na yāti tamugraśokapadmaṃ28 narakaṃ mṛtyumivāti29 kālasadma ..1 2..

> or one whose back is turned, or one engaged in dispute with another— / all these mindless men go there. / A self-controlled person who constantly hears of this abode of the Lord of Death, this abode of many sufferings, / does not go to that hell, a lotus of fierce grief, as if \[approaching\] death, the abode of Time.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_73)

iti skandapurāṇe narakavarṇane padmo nāma catuścatvāriṃśodhyāyaḥ

> Thus ends the forty-fourth chapter, named Padma, in the description of hells in the Skandapurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_74)

6 pragṛhṇanti  
- ka. ga., te  
gattvā pratigṛhṇanti - kha, tu  
gṛhṇanti - gha . 7 pātitā - ka.  
. 8 niḥśaṃkā - gha. .  
9 patanti - ga., ye pāpastān  
- gha . 10 guruḥ śvaśru - gha.,  
gurorvittaṃ - kha.  
. 11... cca - ka.  
kha. ga. . 12...  
ccā - kha.,... nnā  
- gha. . 13 strīdhanasya tathaiva ca -  
ka. kha gha. . 14

> 6 pragṛhṇanti — ka. ga.; te gatvā pratigṛhṇanti — kha; tu gṛhṇanti — gha. 7 pātitā — ka. 8 niḥśaṅkā — gha. 9 patanti — ga.; ye pāpas tān — gha. 10 guruḥ śvaśrū — gha.; guror vittaṃ — kha. 11 ...cca — ka. kha. ga. 12 ...ccā — kha.; ...nnā — gha. 13 strīdhanasya tathaiva ca — ka. kha. gha. 14  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_75)

krīḍāṃśca - gha. . 15

> krīḍāṃśca — gha. 15  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_76)

hanyāccharaṇamāgatāṃ - kha.,... māgatān  
- gha . 16 dharmiṣṭhāṃ cāvamanyeta - kha.,  
dhanaṃvāpya ... - gha-  
. 17 paradravyaharaśca - gha.,.. harāśca  
- gha. . 18 ye - ka.  
. 19 agnyutsādī ca - kha . 20 agniṃ  
praharate - kha-, praharāṇaścaiba  
- gha. . 21 viprāṃśca te ca -  
kha . 22 vā - punaḥ -  
gha . 23 yācamānastathā - gha. . 24 ca  
- ka. ṭi . 25 nyaiśca -  
kha. . 26 imaṃ - ka.  
kha ga . 27?.. sadmaṃ -  
ka. kha. . 28 padma  
- ga. . 29.. rivāti  
- ka kha. ga,...  
rivādi - ga. .

> hanyāc charaṇam āgatāṃ — kha.; ...m āgatān — gha. 16 dharmiṣṭhāṃ cāvamanyeta — kha.; dhanaṃ vāpya... — gha. 17 paradravyaharaś ca — gha.; ...harāś ca — gha. 18 ye — ka. 19 agnyutsādī ca — kha. 20 agniṃ praharate — kha; praharāṇaś caiva — gha. 21 viprāṃś ca te ca — kha. 22 vā — punaḥ — gha. 23 yācamānas tathā — gha. 24 ca — ka. ṭi. 25 nyaiś ca — kha. 26 imaṃ — ka. kha. ga. 27 ?...sadmaṃ — ka. kha. 28 padma — ga. 29 ...rivāti — ka. kha. ga.; ...rivādi — ga.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_77)

266

> 266  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_78)

suśarmovāca

> Suśarmā said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_79)

mahāpadmastataścānyo nirayo romaharṣaṇaḥ .  
yatra1 te kiṅkarā ghorā2 yamasya yamasaṃnibhāḥ3 .. 1 . .  
jantūnāmāyudhaiḥ kuṇṭhai4 rnighṛṇāḥ pāpakarmiṇām .  
utkṛtyotkṛtya māṃsāni tebhyo yacchanti vai punaḥ ..2. .

> Next to that is another hell, Mahāpadma, hair-raising, / where those terrible servants of Yama, resembling Yama himself, / mercilessly slicing off again and again the flesh of sinful living beings / with blunt weapons, indeed feed it back to them.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_80)

te bhakṣayitvā māṃsāni svāni duṣkṛtakāriṇaḥ .  
padmapatranibhā jātā dhāmyante5 gnau divāniśam . . 3 ..

> Having eaten their own flesh, those evildoers, / becoming \[red\] like lotus petals, are blow-torched in fire day and night.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_81)

analena ca ghoreṇa dravīkṛtamayaḥ punaḥ .  
mukhepāvṛtya yacchanti dāruṇā yamakiṅkarāḥ ..4. .  
ayomayā6stathā nāryo narāścāgnisamaprabhāḥ .  
samāśliṣyanti saṅgatya dravamāṇāstatastataḥ ..5..

> Moreover, opening their mouths, Yama's cruel servants / pour iron liquefied by fearful fire. / Likewise, women and men made of iron, radiant as fire, / unite and embrace them as they flee this way and that.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_82)

vṛkṣāśca bahava7statra8 supuṣyāḥ phalapatriṇaḥ9 .  
tānāśrayanti duḥkhārttā agniṃ varṣanti tepi ca10 ..6. .  
śilāśca bahvyastatrānyāstāḥ11 śliṣyanti yadā ca te .  
tadā tāścāgnivarṇābhā dahante tānbhṛśaṃ12 narān ..7..

> And there are many trees there, bearing fine flowers, fruits, and leaves; / afflicted with agony, they seek shelter under them, but those \[trees\] also rain down fire. / And there are many other rocks there; whenever they embrace them, / those rocks, shining like fire, burn those men severely.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_83)

evameṣa mahāpadmo narakaḥ saṃprakīrtitaḥ .  
suvarṇahārī yaścaiva mātṛyāyī13 ca yo naraḥ ..8..

> In this way has this hell, Mahāpadma, been described. / A man who steals gold, and who approaches his mother \[sexually\],  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_84)

mātā putraṃ ca yobhyeti vedadūṣyavakīrṇikaḥ14 .  
matsarī yaśca durvṛttaḥ śramaṇānāñca15 pūjakaḥ ..9..

> and the son who approaches his mother; one who violates celibacy and defiles the Veda; / one who is envious, vicious, and a worshipper of śramaṇas;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_85)

vṛṣalo yaḥ16 śrutiṃ brūyācchṛṇuyādapi vā punaḥ .  
gṛhaṇīyādvāpi durbuddhirbrāhmaṇān vāvamanyate17 ..

> a śūdra who recites or even listens to the Śruti, / or the foolish-minded one who accepts \[its meaning\], or one who despises brahmins;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_86)

8.45.10 ..

> 8.45.10  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_87)

brāhmaṇebhyo rahasyāni āśramāntarajāni ca .  
yasminnadhikṛto na syācchṛṇuyādvā paṭheta vā . . 11 ..

> or one who, without being qualified, listens to or recites / the secrets meant for brahmins and those belonging to different stages of life;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_88)

1 tatra  
- kha. . 2 raudrā -  
kha. . 3 vegitāḥ - gha.  
. 4.. rdaṇḍai - gha.  
. 5 dhmāyante (?) . 6 ayomayī (  
yya?) - kha. . 7

> 1 tatra — kha. 2 raudrā — kha. 3 vegitāḥ — gha. 4 ...rdaṇḍai — gha. 5 dhmāyante (?). 6 ayomayī (yya?) — kha. 7  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_89)

tatra bahavaḥ - ka. . 8 putra -  
gha . 9 supuṣpaphalapatriṇaḥ - ka . 10 agninā  
muhyate punaḥ - gha. . 11.  
ścā - gha . 12 sadṛśaṃ -  
gha. . 13 mātṛgāmī -  
gha . 14 doṣāṃvakarṇikaḥ... - ka., .kīrttikaḥ  
- ka,... kīrttaka- -  
kha., doṣānukīrtanaḥ -  
gha. . 15 śravaṇānāñca -  
ka. kha, gurūṇāṃ  
cāpyapūjakaḥ - gha. . 16 vṛṣalāya  
- gha. . 17...  
navamanyate - gha., vāpamanyate -  
kha. .

> tatra bahavaḥ — ka. 8 putra — gha. 9 supuṣpaphalapatriṇaḥ — ka. 10 agninā muhyate punaḥ — gha. 11 ...ścā — gha. 12 sadṛśaṃ — gha. 13 mātṛgāmī — gha. 14 doṣāṃ vakarṇikaḥ... — ka.; ...kīrttikaḥ — ka.; ...kīrttaka- — kha.; doṣānukīrtanaḥ — gha. 15 śravaṇānāñ ca — ka. kha.; gurūṇāṃ cāpy apūjakaḥ — gha. 16 vṛṣalāya — gha. 17 ...nāvamanyate — gha.; vāpamanyate — kha.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_90)

267

> 267  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_91)

67 duṣṭaśramaṇanirgranthā18 tathaivājīvakāśca ye .  
bhaktastebhyo dvijo yaśca19 narakaṃ sa prapadyate . .1 2..

> wicked śramaṇas, Nirgranthas, and also Ājīvikas— / a twice-born man who is devoted to them falls into hell.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_92)

yogaṃ20 parivadedyaśca pitṝnatha pitāmahān .  
yogeśvarām̐śca durvṛtto21 yogadharmamathāpi vā .. 13 ..

> The wicked man who slanders yoga, or the ancestors and grandfathers, / or the masters of yoga, or the practice of yoga;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_93)

vedavarṇāśramā23 yajñā24 stannindābhirataḥ śaṭhaḥ .  
nāstiko hetuvādī ca25 sarvastaṃ pratipadyate .  
tathyamuktaṃ26 mayā sarvamevametanna saṃśayaḥ . . 14..

> or the rogue who delights in reviling the Vedas, social classes, life stages, and sacrifices, / the atheist, and the rationalist sceptic—every such person reaches that \[hell\]. / All this has been spoken truly by me; of this there is no doubt.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_94)

evante yātitāstatra svakarmaphalabandhanāḥ27 .  
tataḥ śeṣeṇa saṃbaddhā jāyante kīṭayoniṣu28 .. 1 5..

> Thus tormented there, bound by the fruits of their own deeds, / they are subsequently born, bound by the remainder \[of their karma\], in the wombs of worms.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_95)

śṛṇuyād ya imaṃ vicintya29 dhīmān30 matimānnityamalobhamohaśokaḥ .  
sa tu daivavidhipracoditātmā31 divamevaiti na yāti taṃ kadācid32 ..1 6..

> The wise, sensible person who, having reflected, constantly listens to this \[account\], free from greed, delusion, and sorrow, / with his mind impelled by divine law, goes to heaven alone and never enters that \[hell\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_96)

iti skandapurāṇe narakavarṇane mahāpadmo nāma paṃcacatvāriṃśodhyāyaḥ

> Thus ends the forty-fifth chapter, named Mahāpadma, in the description of hells in the Skandapurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_97)

ataḥ paraṃ pravakṣyāmi rauravaṃ narakaṃ punaḥ .  
yatra te vivaśā baddhāḥ karmaṇā svena jantavaḥ..1 ..

> Hereafter I shall describe once again the Raurava hell, / wherein living beings, helpless, are bound by their own karma.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_98)

yātyante1 duḥkhaśokārtā mahānirayagāminaḥ .  
ru iti procyate śabdastatrāsau śrūyate yataḥ ..2. .  
punaḥ punarvā bhīmo hi2 rauravastena kathyate3 .  
pūrṇastu sarvaḥ4 kārīṣyāj jjvalate sotidāruṇaḥ5 ..3 ..

> Those bound for the great hell are tormented, afflicted by pain and grief. / Because the sound 'ru' is heard there / again and again, terrible indeed, it is therefore called Raurava. / Filled with dried cow dung, it burns, exceedingly dreadful.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_99)

madhye stambhosya lauho vai taptakāñcanasaprabhaḥ .  
tatra jaṃtuḥrbhṛśaṃ magnaḥ praviśan6 dahyatevaśaḥ7 ..4..

> In its center is an iron pillar, resembling molten gold; / deeply immersed there upon entering, the helpless creature is severely burned.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_100)

ārtanādān8 prakurvāṇo mūrcchitaḥ patitaḥ punaḥ .  
tataḥ kleśene9 mahatā uddhṛtyātmānamātmanā ..5..

> Uttering cries of distress, fainting, and falling again, / he then extricates himself by his own effort with great suffering.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_101)

18 śravaṇanirgranyā  
- ka. kha. gha.  
. 19 dvijān hitvā - kha.  
. 20 gurūn - gha. .  
21 nindante - kha. . 22

> 18 śravaṇanirgranyā — ka. kha. gha. 19 dvijān hitvā — kha. 20 gurūn — gha. 21 nindante — kha. 22  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.23\_102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.23_102)

yogadharmāstathāpi ca - dha. . 23

> yogadharmās tathāpi ca — dha. 23  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28)

devadharmāśramā - gha. . 24...  
śramajñāśca - ka. gha  
. 25 hetuko nāsti vādī ca - ka. gha.  
. 26 tathāpyuktaṃ - gha . 27?.?  
nāt - kha. . 28

> devadharmāśramā — gha. 24 ...śramajñāś ca — ka. gha. 25 hetuko nāsti vādī ca — ka. gha. 26 tathāpy uktaṃ — gha. 27 ?.?nāt — kha. 28  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_103)

kīṭakādiṣu - ka., kīcakādiṣu -  
gha. . 29 vijitya -  
gha. . 30 doṣān - kha.  
. 31 pravedimātgā - ka.  
kha., preritātmā -  
gha. . 32... dapīti -  
kha . 1 pātyante - gha.  
. 2 bhūyo -?, bhūyopi -  
kha. . 3 kīrtyate -  
ka . 4 sarva... - ka. . 5 jvalatpāśo  
tidāruṇa . - gha, jvalatyasau -  
kha. . 6 praviṣṭo -  
gha. . 7 rudate bhṛśaṃ - kha.  
. 8 ārtanādaṃ - kha.  
. 9 śokena - kha. .

> \[Apparatus readings: kīṭakādiṣu - ka., kīcakādiṣu - gha. 29 vijitya - gha. 30 doṣān - kha. 31 pravedimātgā - ka. kha., preritātmā - gha. 32... dapīti - kha. 1 pātyante - gha. 2 bhūyo - ?, bhūyopi - kha. 3 kīrtyate - ka. 4 sarva... - ka. 5 jvalatpāśotidāruṇa. - gha, jvalatyasau - kha. 6 praviṣṭo - gha. 7 rudate bhṛśaṃ - kha. 8 ārtanādaṃ - kha. 9 śokena - kha.\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_104)

268

> 268  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_105)

bhūyonyaṃ deśamāsādya tathaiva praviśecca saḥ .  
tatastasmādupotpatya10 stambhamāśrayate yadi11 ..6. .  
tenāpi dahyate bhūyo visṛjya praviśetpunaḥ12 .  
evaṃ sa yātyate tatra bahūnabdān suduḥkhitaḥ ..7..

> Reaching another place again, he enters in just the same way. / If, springing up from that, he takes refuge upon a post, // he is burned further by that as well; releasing \[it\], he enters back again. / Thus he is tormented there for many years in intense suffering.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_106)

tato visṛṣṭo bhūyaśca ucchrayānpratipadyate .  
taṃ hi gacchanti puruṣāḥ surāpā dharmadeśakāḥ . .8..

> Then, released once more, he falls into high precipices. / Those men who are drinkers of liquor and teachers of \[false\] doctrine go to it:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_107)

pitṛhā mātṛhā caiva bhrātṛhā guruhā tathā .  
-  
- - vādebhiratāsteṣāmeva ca nindakāḥ . . 9. .  
goghnotha damakaścaiva jantūnāṃ bhṛśadāruṇaḥ .

> A father-killer, a mother-killer, a brother-killer, and likewise a guru-killer; / those who delight in disputations against them and revilers of those very people; / a killer of cattle, and a brutally harsh subduer of creatures;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_108)

galakartā13 kūṭamānī karmaṇānu14 karoti yaḥ . .  
8.46.10 ..

> A cutthroat, one who is deceitful in measurement, and one who acts fraudulently by his deeds. // 8.46.10  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_109)

parivittiḥ parivettā śmaśānaratireva15 ca .  
punarbhūsutasaṃyogī16 yasyā copapatirgṛhe.  
ete sarvebhigacchanti17 narakaṃ rauravaṃ narāḥ . . 11 ..

> A younger brother married before his elder, an elder brother unmarried after his younger, one who delights in cremation grounds, / one who cohabits with a twice-married woman's daughter, and one in whose house is a wife's paramour: / all these men go to the hell Raurava.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_110)

ya imaṃ śṛṇuyācca rauravaṃ18 narakaṃ pāpakṛtāṃ surauravam .  
niyataṃ prayato19tirauravaṃ na sa gacchenmanasāpi rauravam20 . . 1

> Whoever hears of this Raurava hell of wrongdoers, the dreadful Raurava, / restrained and self-controlled, shall never go, even in mind, to that exceedingly terrifying Raurava. // 1  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_111)

iti skandapurāṇe narakavarṇane rauravaṃ nāma ṣaṭcatvāriṃśodhyāyaḥ

> Thus ends the forty-sixth chapter, named Raurava, in the description of hells in the Skandapurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_112)

suśarmovāca

> Suśarmā said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_113)

mahārauravamanyacca śṛṇu me duṣṭayātanam .  
yatra dhārāśca toyaṃ ca taḍāgāni ca putraka ..1 . .  
kārīṣī kanakābhāśca kulyāścāgniprapūritāḥ .  
āyasā bahavaḥ stambhā vṛkṣāśca bahukaṇṭakāḥ . .2 . .

> Listen to me, O son, about another one, Mahāraurava, having terrible tortures, / where there are torrents, water, and ponds; // dried-dung pits resembling gold, and channels filled with fire; / many iron posts, and trees with abundant thorns;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_114)

10 drutotpatya  
-kha. . 11 yadā - gha .  
12 visṛjyopaviśetpunaḥ - kha. . 13

> \[Apparatus readings: 10 drutotpatya - kha. 11 yadā - gha. 12 visṛjyopaviśetpunaḥ - kha. 13  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_115)

chalakarttā - gha., chalagartaḥ -  
kha. . 14 karmaṇāñca ka.,...  
tikaroti-gha. . 15..  
patireva - gha. . 16...  
rathasaṃyogī - gha . 1 ' sarvepi gacchanti  
- gha . 18.. .darauravaṃ -  
ka . 19 paṭhate ca rauravaṃ kha . 20..  
tirauravam - ka. .

> chalakarttā - gha., chalagartaḥ - kha. 14 karmaṇāñca ka.,... tikaroti - gha. 15.. patireva - gha. 16... rathasaṃyogī - gha. 17 sarvepi gacchanti - gha. 18.. .darauravaṃ - ka. 19 paṭhate ca rauravaṃ kha. 20.. tirauravam - ka.\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_116](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_116)

269

> 269  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_117)

rākṣasā vividhākārāstīkṣṇaśastrāstradhāriṇaḥ .  
tatra1 pāpena bahunā jantuḥ samabhipāśitaḥ . .3 ..

> Rākṣasas of various shapes, bearing sharp weapons and missiles. / There a creature, bound fast by abundant sin,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_118)

nipatedvikṛtākāraḥ krandamāno muhurmuhuḥ .  
sa tatra patitaḥ kṣipraṃ rākṣasairbhinnamastakaḥ ..4..

> Falls down, deformed in appearance, crying out again and again. / Having fallen there, his skull is quickly smashed by the rākṣasas.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_119)

kārīṣyāmagnivarṇāyāṃ pacyate bhṛśadāruṇam .  
tatassa tena dāhena duḥkhitaḥ paramārtimān ..5. .  
dāhapraśamanārthāya taḍāge vinimajjati2 .  
tatra kṣāreṇa taptena3 dviguṇaṃ vedanārditaḥ4 . .6 ..

> He is cooked very dreadfully in a pit of dried dung burning like fire. / Then, pained by that burning and in extreme distress, // he plunges into a pond to quench the burning; / there, afflicted twofold with agony by heated caustic brine,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_120)

vegenotthāya vṛkṣaṃ5 vā stambhaṃ vāpyadhirohati6 .  
tatra taiḥ kaṇṭakaistīkṣṇairāyasaiścāvatakṣitaḥ7 . .7..

> Rising up with speed, he climbs a tree or a post; / there, scraped and torn by those sharp iron thorns,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_121)

patate hyagnikulyāyāṃ8 karuṇaṃ bahudhā nadan .  
evaṃ sa yātyamānastu tṛṣārtto vilapan bahu . .8. .  
dhārāmāśrayate pātuṃ9 sāpi tasyāyasaṃ10 tadā11 .  
agnivarṇaṃ vahatyambhastato mūrcchārdito mriyet . 9..

> He falls indeed into a ditch of fire, crying out piteously in various ways. / Tormented thus, distressed by thirst and wailing profusely, // he approaches a torrent to drink; but then, even that / carries iron-hot water resembling fire; overwhelmed by fainting, he dies.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_122)

saṃpūrṇayātanaścāpi muktastasmānmahābhayāt12

> And when his torture is complete, released from that great terror,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_123)

ucchrayeṣu tadā janturyātyate bhṛśadāruṇam ..

> The creature is then tormented very dreadfully upon the heights.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_124)

8.47.10 ..

> 8.47.10  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_125)

tatra gacchati13 rājaghno14 rājabhāryāvamānakaḥ15 .  
āśāṃ dattvā na dadyādyo yaśca tīrthāvadūṣakaḥ . 11 ..

> There goes a king-killer, a despiser of the king's wife, / one who promises hope but gives nothing, and one who desecrates sacred fords;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_126)

moṣakaḥ sūcakaścaiva strībhṛto yaśca pāpakṛt .  
agnau gavi ca16 yo dānaṃ17 brāhmaṇe cāpi vārayet18. .1 2..

> A thief, an informer, an evil-doer supported by a woman, / and one who prevents a gift to the fire, a cow, or a brahmin;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_127)

vikrīṇīyāta svabhāryāṃ yo hyapatyaṃ vā narādhamaḥ19 .  
harate cāgnibhāṇḍāni yogināṃ caiva kiñcana ..13 ..

> The vile man who sells his own wife or offspring, / and one who steals the fire vessels or any possession of ascetics;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_128)

corān vā yonugṛhṇāti manuṣyāstasya ye ca ha .  
brāhmaṇādhikṛtaścaiva dharmādhikṛta eva ca . .14..

> Or one who harbors thieves, and his men, / an official placed over brahmins, and an official placed over religious law;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_129)

1 atra  
- ka. . 2.. ti  
nimajjati - ka., bhirnimañjati  
- kha., te- - ka.  
kha . 3 kaṣṭena - ka.,  
koṣṭena - gha. . 4 vedanānvitaḥ.  
- gha. . 5...  
cchrāyavṛkṣaṃ - ka . 6 thāśrirohati -  
kha ? - va - gha.  
.. 7 rāhāra iva bheditaḥ -  
gha. . 8 tulyāyāṃ -  
gha. . 9 jātu - gha,  
jantuḥ- ? . 10 tatrāyasaṃ -  
kha- . 11 tathā - gha.  
. 12.. dbhayāvahāt -  
ka,? dbhayāvahaḥ - gha .  
13 gacchanti - kha . 14 rājaghnā - (?)  
. 15 manyakaḥ - ka., manyakāḥ -  
kha. . 16 gavāṃ viprāṃstathāgnīnāṃ dīyamānaṃ  
tu - kha. . 17 yajñānāṃ -  
gha. . 18 yo haret -  
gha . 19 saṃkīrṇaṃpa ( .) ranāryaṃ vā  
tāsvapatyānyajījanat - kha .

> \[Apparatus readings: 1 atra - ka. 2.. ti nimajjati - ka., bhirnimañjati - kha., te- - ka. kha. 3 kaṣṭena - ka., koṣṭena - gha. 4 vedanānvitaḥ - gha. 5... cchrāyavṛkṣaṃ - ka. 6 thāśrirohati - kha? - va - gha. 7 rāhāra iva bheditaḥ - gha. 8 tulyāyāṃ - gha. 9 jātu - gha, jantuḥ - ? 10 tatrāyasaṃ - kha. 11 tathā - gha. 12.. dbhayāvahāt - ka, ? dbhayāvahaḥ - gha. 13 gacchanti - kha. 14 rājaghnā - (?) 15 manyakaḥ - ka., manyakāḥ - kha. 16 gavāṃ viprāṃstathāgnīnāṃ dīyamānaṃ tu - kha. 17 yajñānāṃ - gha. 18 yo haret - gha. 19 saṃkīrṇaṃpa(.)ranāryaṃ vā tāsvapatyānyajījanat - kha.\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_130](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_130)

270

> 270  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_131](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_131)

kapilā yasya gauḥ syācca anagnerbrāhmaṇasya ha20 .  
mithyāgnihotrī yaścaiva naityake pariveṣakaḥ21 . .1 5. .  
rājaputravadhaṃ22 caiva23 dubhikṣaṃ yacca cintayet24 .  
rāṣṭralopaṃ dāralopaṃ dhanalopaṃ ca yo naraḥ ..1 6 . .

> A brahmin without sacred fires who owns a brown cow; / one who performs the Agnihotra falsely; one who eats during daily rites; / a man who plots the murder of a prince, or intends famine, / or intends the ruin of the realm, the ruin of a wife, or the ruin of wealth;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_132](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_132)

deśavidra  
( ā) vaṇaṃ caiva yaḥ kuryyāḍḍāmarāṇi vā25 .  
sarve te narakaṃ yānti mahārauravasaṃjñakam ..17..

> And whoever causes devastation of the countryside or riots: / all of them go to the hell named Mahāraurava.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_133](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_133)

ya imaṃ śṛṇuyādabhīkṣṇaśo niyataṃ dharmamatiśca tiṣṭhati .  
na sa gacchati taṃ bhayāvahaṃ narakaṃ rauravamugrarauravam . . 18 .

> Whoever repeatedly hears this, remaining constant and intent upon righteousness, / does not go to that terrifying, fierce hell Raurava. // 18  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_134)

iti skandapurāṇe narakavarṇane mahārauravaṃ nāma saptacatvāriṃśodhyāyaḥ

> Thus ends the forty-seventh chapter, named Mahāraurava, in the description of hells in the Skandapurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_135)

suśarmovāca

> Suśarmā said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_136](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_136)

tamo nāmāparo ghoro narakoti bhayaṃkaraḥ .  
tatra sobhipatannaiva1 rākṣasairabhihanyate ..1 ..

> There is another dreadful, exceedingly terrifying hell named Tamas. / There, as he falls, he is struck down by rākṣasas  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_137](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_137)

asimudgaraśaṃkvagrai2 rgadāmuśalapaṭṭiśaiḥ3 .  
bhayadaiḥ parighaiṣṭaṅkairvajrairṛṣṭiparaśvadhaiḥ . .2..

> With swords, mallets, sharp spike-points, maces, pestles, and double-edged swords; / with fear-striking iron clubs, chisels, thunderbolts, spears, and axes;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_138](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_138)

anyaiśca vividhākārairhataḥ kruddhaiḥ sunirdayaiḥ4.  
mūrchitastamasā grasto narakaṃ taṃ prapadyate5 . .3 ..

> And struck with other diverse forms \[of weapons\] by the enraged, utterly pitiless \[demons\], / fainting and enveloped in darkness, he enters that hell. // 3  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_139)

sa dehena vinaṣṭena tamasā mūcchitākṛtiḥ .  
duḥkhasantatisaṃnaddho7 yātanāmaśnute bhṛśam . .4. .  
yasmāt sa tamasā grasta anāśvastotidāruṇām8 .  
yātanāmaśnute jantustamastasmāt sa ucyate ..5. .

> With his body destroyed and his form swooning in darkness, / bound by continuous suffering, he endures severe torment. / Because that creature, seized by darkness and without comfort, / endures extremely terrible torment, it is called Tamas (Darkness).  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_140](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_140)

sarvā bahuvidhākārā yātanā yāḥ prakīrtitāḥ .  
tāstatra9 samavāpnoti svena pāpena10 durmatiḥ .. 6 ..

> Whatever torments of manifold kinds have been proclaimed, / the wicked-minded one obtains them all there through his own sin.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_141](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_141)

20 anagnihotrī ye cānyat  
kapilākṣīrapāyakaḥ -  
kha . 21 parilopakaḥ - kha. . 22 hara...  
- ka-, hata - kha.  
. 23... caiva - ka.  
kha. gha . re 58 durbhikṣasya ca kārakaḥ  
- kha. . 25 deśasya ḍāmaraṃ caiva satataṃ ya  
ihecchati ka. . 1 sopi patanneva - gha.  
. 2 śaktyagrai - kha,  
śaktyugrai - gha. .  
3 padṛśyai - ka. . 4 sudujamyaiḥ . gha.  
. 5 pratipadyate - kha . 6 tapasā -  
kha . 7 saṃbaddho - ka.  
kha . 8 anāśastotidāruṇām - ka,  
anāgrasto... - gha. . 9.  
ssarvāḥ - ka. . 10

> \[Critical apparatus\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_142](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_142)

śāpena - gha .  
271

> \[Critical apparatus\] / 271  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_143](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_143)

samāptayātanaścāpi santīrṇṇasvena karmaṇā .  
ucchrayeṣu punarjanturyātyate karmabandhanaḥ11 . .7..

> And when the torment is finished, having crossed beyond \[it\] through his own karma, / the creature, still bound by karma, is tormented again on high cliffs.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_144](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_144)

brahmahā bhrūṇahā caiva surāpo brāhmaṇaśca yaḥ .  
gavāṃ nipāne yaścaiva pipāsūnāṃ narādhamaḥ12 ..8. .  
vighnaṃ karoti mohāndha13 āhūya bhartsayettu yaḥ14 .  
brāhmaṇān dveṣṭi nityaṃ15 ya arthinaṃ yaśca dūṣayet ..9. .

> He who is a killer of a brahmin, a killer of an embryo, or a liquor-drinking brahmin; / and that vilest of men who, blinded by delusion, creates an obstacle / at a drinking trough for thirsty cattle; he who insults \[a guest\] after summoning him; / he who constantly hates brahmins, and he who repudiates a petitioner;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_145](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_145)

śāstrāṇi harate yaśca goghno yaśca naraḥ smṛtaḥ16 .  
kāpilaśca vṛthādṛṣṭirvedadharmārthadūṣakaḥ17 ..

> and the man who steals the scriptures, and who is known as a killer of cows; / and a follower of Kapila, holding false views, a defiler of the meaning and duty of the Vedas;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_146](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_146)

8.48.10 . .  
brāhmaṇākrośakaścaiva vedadharmārthadūṣakaḥ .  
nāstikāśca durātmāna ityete taṃ prayānti vai18 . . 11 . .  
ya imaṃ śṛṇuyāttamomayaṃ tamasā nityamatandritendriya19.

> 8.48.10 / a reviler of brahmins, and a defiler of the meaning and duty of the Vedas; / and atheists, evil-minded men—these indeed go to that \[hell\]. / Whoever listens constantly with vigilant senses to this \[description\] consisting of darkness,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_147](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_147)

na sa yāti tamomayaṃ sadā narakaṃ dāruṇajantuśokadam20 .. 12 ..

> does not ever go to that hell consisting of darkness, which brings sorrow to dreadful creatures. 12  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_148](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_148)

iti skandapurāṇe narakavarṇane tamonāma aṣṭacatvāriṃśodhyāyaḥ

> Thus ends the forty-eighth chapter, named Tamas, in the description of hells in the Skandapurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_149)

suśarmovāca

> Suśarman said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_150](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_150)

tamastamataraṃ ghoraṃ narakaṃ śṛṇvataḥ param1 .  
prakāśo yatra naivāsti naiva dṛṣṭiḥ pravartate ..1 . .  
patanneva narastatra2 visaṃjñaḥ kriyate tadā3 .  
rākṣasairvikṛtākāraistamastena sa cocyate . .2. .

> Hear further of the hell Tamas, and the even more dreadful Tamisra, / where there is no light at all, nor does sight function. / Just as he is falling there, a man is rendered unconscious / by rākṣasas of deformed shapes; therefore it is called Tamas.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_151](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_151)

tatrāsau patito mūḍho vahninā dahyate bhṛśam .  
tatopi4 vegādutthāya dṛṣṭihīno vicetanaḥ ..3 ..

> Fallen there, that foolish one is severely burned by fire; / rising up swiftly even from there, bereft of sight and unconscious,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_152](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_152)

chidyate bhidyate caiva5 rākṣasaiḥ krūrakarmabhiḥ .  
tasmādapi tathaivārttaḥ sonyaṃ6 deśaṃ prapadyate ..4. .  
11...  
naiḥ - gha. . 12

> he is cut and torn asunder by cruel-acting rākṣasas; / and afflicted in this very manner, he departs from there to another region. / \[Critical apparatus\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_153](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_153)

nipātanasthāne - kha.,... nipāte  
pipāsuṃ vinivārayet - gha. . 13

> \[Critical apparatus\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_154](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_154)

vighnakaro vimohaśca - gha. . 14 cakṛśaṃ  
- kha, bhṛśaṃ - gha.  
. 15 brāhmaṇe na dadātyarthaṃ - gha,..  
ṇaṃ... tyasya - kha.  
. 16.. .stathā - kha.  
. 17 kapilāṃśca vṛthā duhya ātmārthaṃ yaśca kurvati -  
kha . 18 yānti te tamasaṃ narāḥ - kha.  
. 19... masaṃyatendriyaḥ -  
gha. . 20 śokakārakam -  
kha, śokam - ka,  
modakam - gha. .

> \[Critical apparatus\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_155](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_155)

1 śṛṇume punaḥ  
- ka. . 2 sa patanneva narake -  
kha. . 3 kriyanteprabhuḥ -  
ka. . 4 mṛtopi - kha.,  
mṛto vegādutthitaśca - ka.  
. 5. .. cāpi - ka.  
. 6 saumya... - gha.  
.

> \[Critical apparatus\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_156](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_156)

272

> 272  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_157](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_157)

tatrāpi nigṛhītastaiḥ paśumāreṇa māryate7 .  
tato bhūyaśca kūpeṣu kṣipto durgeṣvacetanaḥ . .5..

> Seized by them there as well, he is slaughtered like a beast; / then, unconscious, he is cast again into inaccessible pits.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_158](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_158)

nimagnaścāgnikārīṣyāṃ niṣkūjan8  
sobhijāyate9 .  
evaṃ sa yātanā bahvīstvanubhūya suduḥkhitaḥ ..6..

> And plunged into a fire of dried cow-dung, he is born groaning. / Having thus experienced many torments, deeply sorrowful,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_159](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_159)

narakāntamanuprāpya ucchrayeṣvabhipātyate10 .  
garbhapātanakāraśca rājyakāmaśca yo bhavet ..7..

> and having reached the end of the hell, he is cast down from precipices. / One who causes abortion, and one who covets the kingdom,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_160](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_160)

ihaivānarhamānosau11  
(?) bhṛtyo rājavadhe rataḥ12 .  
anācāryaśca yaḥ13 karma ācāryāṇāṃ14 prapadyate15 . .8..

> and here a servant who, not being worthy, is intent on killing the king, / and he who, not being a teacher, undertakes the function of teachers;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_161](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_161)

śāstravidyauṣadhīnāṃ ca gadānāmagadaiḥ saha .  
yo vināśayitā16 kaścidyaḥ praśaṃsati dānavān ..9. .  
upadeśaṃ ca yo dveṣādācāryo na prayacchati .  
sa yāti narakaṃ ghoraṃ dustaraṃ taṃ tamomayam17 . .8.49.1  
0 . .

> and whoever is a destroyer of scriptures, lore, and medicines together with antidotes; / he who praises the Dānavas; / and the teacher who, out of hatred, does not impart instruction— / he goes to that terrible, impassable hell consisting of darkness. 8.49.10  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_162)

kṛtaghnaṃ tu samādāya nārakāḥ18 sarva eva te .  
yamaṃ praṇamya bruvate19 saha tairyamakiṅkaraiḥ . . 11 . .  
bhagavanna vayaṃ śaktāḥ20 pāpasyāsya vināśane21.  
upāyamanyaṃ paśyeha22 prasādaṃ kuru naḥ prabho . . 12 ..

> Taking hold of the ungrateful one, all those hellish beings, / bowing to Yama, spoke together with Yama's servants: / "Lord, we are not able to destroy this sinner! / See another means here; grant us favor, O Lord!"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_163)

sa evamukto bhagavān yamaḥ pretādhipastadā23 .  
sarvadharmārthakuśalān pṛcchati smarṣisattamān24 . . 13 ..

> Having been spoken to thus, the blessed Lord Yama, ruler of the departed, / then questioned the best of ṛṣis, who are skilled in all dharma and aims \[of life\]:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_164)

bhagavantaḥ kathaṃ tvasya kṛtaghnasya durātmanaḥ .  
niṣkṛtiḥ sumahāghorād bhavet pāpasya karmaṇaḥ .. 14. .  
tataste ṛṣayassarve dṛṣṭvā dīrgheṇa cakṣuṣā .  
yamaṃ dharmabhṛtāṃ śreṣṭhamidaṃ vai bruvate vacaḥ ..1 5..

> "Venerable ones, how can there be expiation for this evil-souled ungrateful person / from this most dreadful sinful deed?" / Then all those ṛṣis, having seen with farsighted vision, / indeed spoke these words to Yama, the foremost of upholders of dharma:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_165](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_165)

7 badhyate  
- gha. . 8 niṣkuñjana -  
ka. niṣkūṭaḥ - kha.  
. 9 sobhihanyate - kha.  
. 10... ṣveva yātyate -  
gha. . 11 ihaivānaśnamānosau -  
kha. . 12 rājā vadhe -  
ka. . 13 anāryasya ca - kha . 14..  
.māryāṇāṃ - kha. .  
15 pratipāditaḥ - kha. . 16 vināśayate  
- kha. . 17 sa yāti narakān ghorān dustarāt  
tāntamomayān - ka. . 18 narakāḥ  
- ka, narakā (t)  
. - kha . 19 (saṃ)  
prāpya - kha. . 20

> \[Critical apparatus\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_166](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_166)

mayā śakyaṃ - kha. . 21 vi (mocana)  
- kha. . 22 paśyasva -  
ka. kha. . 23 tathā  
- kha. . 24 pṛcchate ṛṣisattamān -  
ka. kha .

> \[Critical apparatus\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_167](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_167)

273

> 273  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_168](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_168)

brahmaghne ca surāpe ca core bhagnavrate tathā .  
niṣkṛtirvihitā sadbhiḥ kṛtaghne nāsti niṣkṛtiḥ . . 16 ..

> "For a slayer of a brahmin, a liquor-drinker, a thief, and likewise one whose vows are broken, / expiation has been prescribed by the good; for an ungrateful person, there is no expiation."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_169](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_169)

tataḥ sa bhagavāndevo mārtaṇḍatanayo varaḥ .  
nārakebhyo25 dadātyājñāṃ sarve yūyamimaṃ naram26 . . 17..

> Then that blessed god, the excellent son of the Sun, / gives an order to the hellish beings: "All of you, \[cast\] this man..."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_170](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_170)

śodhayiṣyatha gacchadhvaṃ naikā27 hyasya gatiḥ smṛtā28 .  
tataste tasya vacanānnārakāḥ pāpakarmiṇam29 .. 18. .  
sarveṣvevānupūrvyeṇa30 yātayantyatidāruṇāḥ31 .  
bhartṛpiṇḍāpahartā ca pitṛpiṇḍāpahārakaḥ . .1 9. .

> "Go, you shall purge him! Indeed, not just one fate is ordained for him."  
> Then, at his word, the exceedingly cruel hell-beings  
> torment the evil-doer in all \[the hells\] in due succession.  
> One who robs his master's food and one who robs his ancestors' funerary offerings,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_171](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_171)

.  
tasmād gṛhītvā vidyāñca dakṣiṇāṃ yo na yacchati32 ..8.49.20  
. .  
puṣṭaśca yastaṃ nānveti yaśca taṃ ghātayennaraḥ .

> and the man who receives knowledge from someone and does not give the sacrificial fee,  
> and who, having been nourished \[by someone\], does not serve him, and the man who slays him,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_172)

kṛtasya doṣaṃ vadati sakāmaṃ33 na karoti ca . .2 1 . .  
na smarecca kṛtaṃ yastu āśramān yaśca dūṣayet .  
na puṣṇāti tathā vāhānāśritām̐ścopakāriṇaḥ34 ..22. .  
bhṛtyāṃśca karmaniratām̐stathaiva hitakāriṇaḥ .

> who finds fault with what was done \[for him\] and does not fulfill \[his\] desire,  
> who does not remember what was done \[for him\], and who defiles the āśramas,  
> who does not nourish draft animals, dependents, and benefactors,  
> servants dedicated to work, and well-wishers,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_173)

bhāryāṃ karmakarāṇāṃ35 ca narmāṇi vadate ca yaḥ ..23 ..

> and who speaks teasing jokes to the wives of workmen,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_174](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_174)

na dattaṃ na hutaṃ kiñcidamuṣminniti36 yo vadet .  
sarvām̐stānṛṣibhiḥ sārdhaṃ kṛtaghnānabravīnmanuḥ ..24..

> and who says, "Nothing was given, nothing was offered in sacrifice in the other world"—  
> all these Manu, along with the seers, declared to be ungrateful.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_175](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_175)

kṛtaghnaśca śaṭhaścaiva nāstikochinnasaṃśayaḥ .  
etān sarvebhigacchanti ya ete kīrtitā mayā ..25. .  
janetā37 copanetā ca yaśca vidyāṃ prayacchati .  
bhayatrātānnadātā ca paṃcaite pitaraḥ smṛtāḥ . .2 6 . .

> The ungrateful, the deceitful, and the atheist whose doubts are unresolved—  
> all these go to those \[hells\] that have been proclaimed by me.  
> The progenitor, the initiator, the one who imparts knowledge,  
> the protector from danger, and the giver of food: these five are remembered as fathers.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5.28\_176](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.5.28_176)

yasteṣāndoṣavaktā ca abhyasūyaka eva ca .  
tathā drohapravṛttaśca santyajettānnarādhamān38 ..27..

> One who speaks ill of them, is envious \[of them\],  
> and is intent on malice \[toward them\]—one should abandon those lowest of men.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.5.p1) — English, machine translation

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