Vamana Purana — Karmic Causes of Narakas, Shloka 32
Karmic Causes of Narakas and the Irremediability of Ingratitude (Kṛtaghna-doṣa)
मूत्रश्लेष्मपुरीषाणि यैरुत्सृष्टानि वारिणि ते पात्यन्ते च विण्मूत्रे दुर्गन्धे पूयपूरिते
mūtraśleṣmapurīṣāṇi yairutsṛṣṭāni vāriṇi te pātyante ca viṇmūtre durgandhe pūyapūrite
যিসকলে পানীত মূত্ৰ, শ্লেষ্মা আৰু বিষ্ঠা ত্যাগ কৰিছে, তেওঁলোকক দুৰ্গন্ধযুক্ত, পূয়ভৰ্তি বিষ্ঠা-মূত্ৰত পেলাই দিয়া হয়।
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FAQs
Waters are treated as shared sacred resources; to defile them is to harm community and ritual life. The text teaches that public harm and ritual impurity carry severe consequences.
Primarily dharma-anuśāsana (ethical injunction) within a purāṇic setting, rather than one of the five classic markers (sarga, pratisarga, vaṃśa, manvantara, vaṃśānucarita).
The punishment mirrors the act (a karmic ‘reflection’): those who pollute clean water are immersed in extreme filth. Symbolically, inner impurity manifests as outer degradation.