Vamana Purana — Karmic Causes of Narakas, Shloka 16
Karmic Causes of Narakas and the Irremediability of Ingratitude (Kṛtaghna-doṣa)
गोब्राह्णणाग्नयः स्पृष्टा यैरुच्छिष्टैः क्षपाचर क्षिप्यन्ते हि करास्तेषां तप्तसुम्भे सुदारुणे
gobrāhṇaṇāgnayaḥ spṛṣṭā yairucchiṣṭaiḥ kṣapācara kṣipyante hi karāsteṣāṃ taptasumbhe sudāruṇe
ಹೇ ಕ್ಷಪಾಚರ! ಯಾರ ಉಚ್ಛಿಷ್ಟದೋಷದಿಂದ ಗೋವು, ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣ ಅಥವಾ ಪವಿತ್ರ ಅಗ್ನಿ ಸ್ಪರ್ಶಿತವಾಗುತ್ತದೋ, ಅವರ ಕೈಗಳನ್ನು ಅತಿಭೀಕರವಾದ ಬಿಸಿಯಾದ ಕುದಿಯುವ ಪಾತ್ರೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಎಸೆಯಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.
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FAQs
Ritual and ethical discipline are treated as inseparable: careless impurity (ucchiṣṭa) becomes a moral fault when it pollutes protected sanctities—cow, brahmin, and sacrificial fire—thus generating severe karmic consequences.
This is not sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa material; it aligns best with dharma-nirdeśa embedded within the Purāṇic narrative stream, i.e., an ethical-ritual instruction segment ancillary to vaṃśānucarita/ākhyāna sections.
Hands symbolize agency and action; the punishment targeting hands teaches that impure actions (especially those violating sacred boundaries) deform the doer’s very capacity to act, reflecting a karmic ‘fit’ between deed and result.