Varaha Purana 200.37: Adhyaya 200, Shloka 37
Description of the Forms of Infernal Torments
Naraka Yātanās
Uttara Bhāga · Naraka-varṇana (Accounts of punitive realms)
एकैकं दुस्तरं घोरं यथापूर्वं यथाक्रमात् ॥ अनुभुङ्क्ते स कृच्छ्रेण दुष्कृती तीव्रवेदनाः
ekaikaṃ dustaraṃ ghoraṃ yathāpūrvaṃ yathākramāt || anubhuṅkte sa kṛcchreṇa duṣkṛtī tīvravedanāḥ
ekaikaM dustaraM ghoraM yathApUrvaM yathAkramAt || anubhu~Nkte sa kRRichChreNa duShkRRitI tIvravedanAH
हर सज़ा बहुत कठिन होती है और डरावनी भी। जो पाप किया है उसके हिसाब से सज़ा मिलती है, एक के बाद एक। पापी को बहुत तकलीफ होती है। वो दर्द बर्दाश नहीं कर पाता।
Sandhi Notes
- एकैकं = eka + ekam (प्रत्येक-अर्थे)
- यथापूर्वं/यथाक्रमात् = अव्ययीभाव-समास
- तीव्रवेदनाः = tīvra + vedanāḥ (कर्मधारय)
Varāha
Actions ripen into experiences in a determinate order; suffering is not random but deed-shaped.
Restrain harmful acts, cultivate dharma and purification practices, and reflect on consequences before acting.
Karmaphala is sequential: the wrongdoer experiences dreadful, hard-to-cross torments in due order according to prior deeds.
Sin leads to intense pains experienced in a fixed, inescapable sequence; righteous conduct avoids such suffering.
Varaha Purana 200.42-200.45 (continuation of naraka enumeration)
FAQs
It provides a meta-statement about the ordered structure of punishments, reflecting systematic moral cosmology rather than episodic storytelling alone.
No specific location is named here; the verse summarizes the sequential experience of torments within the described realms.
Wrongdoing leads to consequential suffering presented as orderly and proportionate within the text’s moral universe.
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