History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.645

v5.c71.s1.645

The Viṣṇu Dh. S. (46. 23-29) provides that those guilty of atipātakas, anupātakas, saṅkarīkaraṇa, who have not undergone prāyaścittas suffer respectively for one Kalpa,395a for one Manvantara, for four Yugas, for a thousand years in the 21 narakas in rotation and the other sinners for many years. Yama quoted by the Madanapārijāta p. 696 says that those guilty of Mahāpātakas stay in Hell with face downwards for a *yuga* and Yama has numerous other verses stating what sinners undergo which horrors of Hell.