Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 12, Shloka 25
Adhyaya 12 — The Son Describes the Narakas: Mahāraurava, Tamas, Nikṛntana, Apratiṣṭha, Asipatravana, and Taptakumbha
योजनानां सहस्रं यो ज्वलदग्न्यास्तृतावनिः ।
तप्ताः सूर्यकरैश्चण्डैर्यत्रातीव सुदारुणैः ॥
yojanānāṃ sahasraṃ yo jvaladagnyāstṛtāvaniḥ | taptāḥ sūryakaraiś caṇḍair yatrātīva sudāruṇaiḥ ||
There is a region a thousand yojanas across, whose ground is spread over with blazing fire; there the beings are scorched by the sun’s fierce, exceedingly cruel rays.
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FAQs
Moral harm is portrayed as an environment one ‘falls into’ and cannot easily escape—emphasizing that habitual wrongdoing shapes one’s experiential world.
Not a direct pancalakṣaṇa unit (sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita), but a dharma-upadeśa passage that supports righteous conduct within the Purāṇic encyclopedic scope.
Fire and harsh solar rays can be read as the ‘heat’ of unprocessed karma and the burning of conscience—inner torment externalized as cosmic geography.