Shloka 36
Adhyaya 12 — The Son Describes the Narakas: Mahāraurava, Tamas, Nikṛntana, Apratiṣṭha, Asipatravana, and Taptakumbha
क्वाथ्यन्ते विस्फुटद्गात्र-गलन्मज्जजलाविलाः ।
स्फुरत्कपालनेत्रास्थिच्छिद्यमाना विभीषणैः ॥
kvāthyante visphuṭadgātra-galanmajjajalāvilāḥ / sphuratkapālanetrāsthicchidyamānā vibhīṣaṇaiḥ
Ils sont bouillis—les membres éclatent, et le liquide se trouble de moelle qui goutte et s’écoule—tandis que des êtres terrifiants les tailladent, au milieu d’éclats de crânes, d’yeux et d’ossements.
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FAQs
The extremity of imagery is pedagogical: it aims to shock the listener into ethical self-regulation and to affirm that embodied harm caused to others returns as embodied suffering.
Didactic material reinforcing dharma and karma-phala; not directly sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita.
Boiling and disintegration symbolize the dissolution of the ‘constructed self’ under the pressure of one’s own actions; the skull-eye-bone motifs underscore mortality and the stripping away of pretenses.