Varaha Purana 218.43: Adhyaya 218, Shloka 43
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कृतान्तदूतकथनं यातनारूपमेव च ॥ वर्णनं नरकाणां च किंकराणां च वर्णनम्
kṛtāntadūtakathanaṃ yātanārūpameva ca || varṇanaṃ narakāṇāṃ ca kiṃkarāṇāṃ ca varṇanam
मृत्यु के आदमी कैसे आते हैं, यह भी बताया। लोगों को कितना दर्द दिया जाता है, वो भी समझा। नरक कैसा होता है, उसका भी वर्णन है। और वहाँ जो लोग सज़ा देते हैं, उनके बारे में भी बताया।
Varāha
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It indexes a common Purāṇic pedagogical device: afterlife imagery used to articulate moral causality and social norms through vivid narrative description.
No terrestrial location is named; the verse points to cosmological/otherworldly locales (narakas) as part of moral instruction literature.
The implied instruction is accountability: actions are presented as having consequences, communicated through structured descriptions of punishment and its agents.
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