Adhyaya 12 — The Son Describes the Narakas: Mahāraurava, Tamas, Nikṛntana, Apratiṣṭha, Asipatravana, and Taptakumbha
तत्तापतप्ता सर्वाशा प्रोद्यदिन्दुसमप्रभा ।
विभात्यतिमहारौद्रा दर्शनस्पर्शनादिषु ॥
tattāpataptā sarvāśā prodyad-indu-samaprabhā /
vibhāty ati-mahā-raudrā darśana-sparśanādiṣu
সেই তাপে সকলো দিশাত দগ্ধ হোৱা সেয়া উদীয়মান চন্দ্ৰৰ প্ৰভাৰ দৰে দীপ্ত হয়; কিন্তু দৰ্শন, স্পৰ্শ আদি দিশত অতিশয় ভয়ংকৰ।
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Pleasant appearance can conceal harmful reality; moral discernment is required, as karmic suffering may be alluring in form yet destructive in experience.
Didactic-ethical extension attached to cosmological mapping; not Sarga/Pratisarga proper, but a moralized cosmography used to teach Dharma.
The ‘moonlike’ sheen suggests the deceptive coolness of ignorance: what seems soothing to the deluded mind becomes torment upon contact—an allegory for attachment.