Hell

> A Śūdra who drinks *pañcagavya*, and a Brāhmaṇa who drinks liquor, / > Both of them go to the hell called Mahāraurava.

32 || > > Dragged here and there by the terrible servants of Yama, / > They are led along with difficulty, in a manner that imitates their sins.

In these, those who have committed heinous sins without performing *prāyaścitta* are tormented in succession for a Kalpa.

the base character-traits and the false beliefs, which encompass them in this genesis, are themselves the very Hell that will appear in the promised forms upon them, as the Lawgiver warned them, upon him be blessing and peace — save that they do not recognize this, because it does not appear upon them in this genesis under those forms;

for the verse in its outward sense indicates the encompassing of the unbelievers by Hell in the present time, and there is no need to turn it away from its outward sense, on the basis of the verification that went before;

(His words, ‘and His saying, exalted be He, «truly those who devour the wealth of orphans wrongfully devour only fire into their bellies»’, and the saying of the Opener and the Seal, upon him and upon his household be the most excellent blessing and greeting, «those who drink from vessels of gold and silver — it is only the fire of Hell that gurgles into their bellies», and his saying, upon him be …

the second, full of darkness and affliction and pain, has been prepared for the devil and his angels, into which will also be cast those who by their wicked works procured it for themselves—those who exchanged the present things for the incorruptible and eternal, and made their whole selves food for the eternal fire.

the soul that He threatens to destroy in hell;

For no one, away from the body, dwells at once with the Lord, except by the prerogative of martyrdom, being about to lodge in paradise, namely, not in hell.

So far does he signify that life which broke the adamantine gates of death and the brazen bars of hell, which thenceforth is now ours.

For who would not desire, while he is in the flesh, to be clothed over with immortality and to continue life, death being made gain through a substitutionary transmutation, that he experience not hell, which would exact even to the last farthing?

A king who punishes the unpunishable and fails to punish the punishable, incurs great infamy and goes to hell.

otherwise, he goes to hell.

by overlooking it, they, along with the king, go headlong to hell.

Those lowest of *dvijas* who eat without first performing the *Vaiśvadeva*—know that all their efforts are fruitless, and they fall into an impure hell.

Those who, prompted by their own intellect, perform the rite otherwise, they become short-lived and fall into an impure hell.

Those who are without the *Vaiśvadeva* and are excluded from hospitality to an *atithi*—they all go to hell and are born in the womb of a crow.

He will return to hell, falling into the cauldron of Yama, to be the dregs of the Copper-Faced Demon.

It is a heavy burden carried to hell, for killing is the cause of hell, of finding extremely heavy suffering, and of being born as a ghost (*preta*), an animal, a worm, an ant, and so on.

*REFRAINING FROM TAKING WHAT IS NOT GIVEN* means one must not take property if it has not been given.

Despotic rule over unwilling subjects they give, I fancy, to those whom they judge worthy to live the life of Tantalus, of whom it is said that in hell he spends eternity, dreading a second death.