Varaha Purana 198.79: Adhyaya 198, Shloka 79
Description of the Torments within the Cycle of Rebirth: Hymn to Yama and the Introduction to Citragupta’s Administration
वेणुयष्टिप्रहारैश्च प्रहरन्ति ततोऽधिकैः ॥ भग्ना भिन्ना विभिन्नाश्च तथा भग्नशिरोधराः
veṇu-yaṣṭi-prahāraiś ca praharanti tato’dhikaiḥ || bhagnā bhinnā vibhinnāś ca tathā bhagna-śirodharāḥ
वहाँ लोग बाँस की लकड़ी से मारते हैं, बहुत ज़ोर से। लोग टूट जाते हैं, बिखर जाते हैं, फट जाते हैं। उनका गला भी टूट जाता है।
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Such punitive catalogues are characteristic of Purāṇic didactic sections, functioning as vivid moral pedagogy through narrative consequence.
No terrestrial location is named; the scene belongs to the infernal/otherworldly descriptive register.
The verse reinforces the theme of moral causality by depicting severe consequences associated with wrongdoing.
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