Vamana Purana — Sukesha's Boon & Twelve Dharmas, Shloka 58
Sukesha’s Boon, the Twelve Dharmas of Beings, and the Cosmography of the Seven Dvipas with the Twenty-One Hells
तथापरः शोणितपूयभोजनः क्षुराग्रधारो निशितश्च चक्रकः संशोषणो नाम तथाप्यनन्तः प्रोक्तास्तवैते नरकाः सुकेशिन्
tathāparaḥ śoṇitapūyabhojanaḥ kṣurāgradhāro niśitaśca cakrakaḥ saṃśoṣaṇo nāma tathāpyanantaḥ proktāstavaite narakāḥ sukeśin
「さらに他の地獄がある。ショーニタプーヤボージャナ（Śoṇitapūyabhojana―血と膿を食する所）、クシュラーグラダーラー（Kṣurāgradhāra―剃刀の刃のごとく鋭い流れ）、ニシタ・チャクラカ（Niśita-cakraka―鋭利な輪・円盤の処）。またサンショーシャナ（Saṃśoṣaṇa）、そしてアナンタ（Ananta）もある。これらの地獄はこのように汝に宣説された、スケーシーよ。」
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FAQs
The verse reinforces karmic moral realism: actions generate fitting consequences, here taught through vivid punitive topographies. The intent is deterrence and ethical instruction—turning the listener away from adharmic conduct by illustrating the gravity of wrongdoing.
This passage aligns most closely with Dharma/karma instruction and didactic material rather than the core five (sarga, pratisarga, vaṃśa, manvantara, vaṃśānucarita). If mapped within Purāṇic classificatory habits, it functions as ancillary dharma-śikṣā embedded in narrative dialogue.
The named hells symbolically mirror inner states produced by vice: ‘eating blood and pus’ evokes moral disgust and self-degradation; ‘razor-edge streams’ and ‘sharp wheels’ evoke the cutting, grinding nature of harmful actions returning upon the agent; ‘desiccation’ suggests the drying up of compassion/merit; ‘endless’ indicates the felt interminability of suffering when one is bound by unexpiated wrongdoing.