मूषावस्थां वसाकूपं तथा वैतरणी नदीम् । श्वभक्षं मूत्रपानं च सेतुस्नायी न पश्यति
mūṣāvasthāṃ vasākūpaṃ tathā vaitaraṇī nadīm | śvabhakṣaṃ mūtrapānaṃ ca setusnāyī na paśyati
Celui qui se baigne au Setu ne voit pas les états de supplice : être réduit à l’état de souris, le « puits de graisse », la rivière Vaitaraṇī, ni les horreurs de manger du chien et de boire de l’urine.
Sūta (deduced)
Tirtha: Setu
Type: kshetra
Listener: General audience
Scene: Foreground: a devotee bathing at Setu with hands folded; Background: shadowy, fading visions of naraka—Vaitaraṇī river, a ‘fat well,’ grotesque punishments—receding like a nightmare dispelled by sacred water and sunrise.
Purifying pilgrimage acts, especially tīrtha-snāna, are framed as protections from grievous post-death torments caused by sin.
Setu-tīrtha (Setubandha).
Snāna—bathing at the Setu.