Varaha Purana 195.17: Adhyaya 195, Shloka 17
Description of Sinners Abiding in Yama’s Realm
Catalog of Transgressions and the Logic of Retribution
स्त्रियो नराश्च गच्छन्ति यत्र तच्छृणुतामलाः॥ कुर्वन्तीह यथा सर्वे तत्र गत्वा यमालये॥
striyo narāś ca gacchanti yatra tac chṛṇutāmalāḥ || kurvantīha yathā sarve tatra gatvā yamālaye
और सुनो, औरतों और मर्दों का क्या होता है। जैसे लोग यहाँ दुनिया में करते हैं, वैसे ही यमराज के घर जाके उनका फल मिलता है।
Varāha (default, not explicit in fragment)
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It articulates a broadly pan-Indic karmic principle found across Purāṇic and Dharmaśāstra traditions: actions in life correspond to experiences after death.
The verse names Yamālaya (Yama’s abode), a cosmological rather than terrestrial location.
One should be mindful that actions have consequences; moral causality is presented as continuous across life and afterlife.
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