Shloka 2
Adhyaya 12 — The Son Describes the Narakas: Mahāraurava, Tamas, Nikṛntana, Apratiṣṭha, Asipatravana, and Taptakumbha
तत्र ते नरकाः सर्वे यथा वै रौरवस्तथा ।
वर्णितास्तान् समाचक्ष्व विस्तरेण महामते ॥
tatra te narakāḥ sarve yathā vai rauravas tathā | varṇitās tān samācakṣva vistareṇa mahā-mate ||
അവിടെ നീ റൗരവം മുതലായ എല്ലാ നരകങ്ങളെയും വിവരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഇനി, ഹേ മഹാത്മാവേ, അവയെ വിശദമായി പറയുക।
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FAQs
The text uses detailed consequence-imagery as a moral technology: specificity makes ethical causality emotionally and cognitively compelling.
Falls under dharma-upadeśa and loka-description (cosmological geography of narakas), adjacent to sarga-style cosmology but here primarily ethical instruction.
Enumerating narakas externalizes inner suffering-states; the ‘detail’ functions as meditation on consequence, weakening denial and strengthening restraint.