Pramāṇa · Search · About · API

Vishnupurana 6.5.48

Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate) 6.5.48

Language
Sanskrit

6.5.48

kvāthyatāṃ tailamadhye ca klidyatāṃ kṣārakardame /
uccānnipātyamānānāṃ kṣipyatāṃ kṣepayantrakaiḥ //

Men are bound, when they die, by the servants of the king of Tartarus with cords, and beaten with sticks, and have then to encounter the fierce aspect of Yama, and the horrors of their terrible route. In the different hells there are various intolerable tortures with burning sand, fire, machines, and weapons; some are severed with saws, some roasted in forges, some are chopped with axes, some buried in the ground, some are mounted on stakes, some cast to wild beasts to be devoured, some are gnawed by vultures, some torn by tigers, some are boiled in oil, some rolled in caustic slime, some are precipitated from great heights, some tossed upwards by engines. The number of punishments inflicted in hell, which are the consequences of sin, is infinite.

Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition

Translations (2)

Commentaries (3)

Other recensions (1)