Vamana Purana — Karmic Causes of Narakas, Shloka 28
Karmic Causes of Narakas and the Irremediability of Ingratitude (Kṛtaghna-doṣa)
क्लेशयन्ति हि विप्रादीन् ये ह्यकर्मसु पापिनः ते पिष्यन्ते शिलापेषे शोष्यनते ऽपि च शोषकैः
kleśayanti hi viprādīn ye hyakarmasu pāpinaḥ te piṣyante śilāpeṣe śoṣyanate 'pi ca śoṣakaiḥ
जो पापी निषिद्ध कर्मों में प्रवृत्त होकर ब्राह्मण आदि को क्लेश देते हैं, वे शिला-चक्की में पीसे जाते हैं और ‘शोषक’ नामक यातनाकारों द्वारा सुखाए भी जाते हैं।
{ "primaryRasa": "bhayanaka", "secondaryRasa": "raudra", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }
FAQs
The verse reinforces dharma by warning that harming socially/religiously protected persons (vipras) and engaging in prohibited conduct rebounds as intense suffering; moral injury to others becomes karmic injury to oneself.
This is not sarga/pratisarga/vamśa material; it aligns best with dharma/ācāra and karmaphala teaching often embedded within Purāṇic narration (a didactic subsection rather than a core pañcalakṣaṇa item).
Grinding in a stone-press and forced desiccation symbolize the ‘compression’ and ‘drying up’ of merit and vitality caused by cruelty and adharma—inner hardness (stone-like cruelty) yields stone-like punishment.