Shloka 36
Adhyaya 12 — The Son Describes the Narakas: Mahāraurava, Tamas, Nikṛntana, Apratiṣṭha, Asipatravana, and Taptakumbha
क्वाथ्यन्ते विस्फुटद्गात्र-गलन्मज्जजलाविलाः ।
स्फुरत्कपालनेत्रास्थिच्छिद्यमाना विभीषणैः ॥
kvāthyante visphuṭadgātra-galanmajjajalāvilāḥ / sphuratkapālanetrāsthicchidyamānā vibhīṣaṇaiḥ
അവർ വേവിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു—അവയവങ്ങൾ പൊട്ടിത്തെറിക്കുന്നു, മജ്ജ ഒഴുകി ദ്രാവകം കലങ്ങുന്നു—അതേസമയം ഭയാനകമായ ജീവികൾ അവരെ വെട്ടിമുറിക്കുന്നു.
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FAQs
The extremity of imagery is pedagogical: it aims to shock the listener into ethical self-regulation and to affirm that embodied harm caused to others returns as embodied suffering.
Didactic material reinforcing dharma and karma-phala; not directly sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita.
Boiling and disintegration symbolize the dissolution of the ‘constructed self’ under the pressure of one’s own actions; the skull-eye-bone motifs underscore mortality and the stripping away of pretenses.