Harihara Revelation and the Kurukshetra Tirtha Cycle: Sthanu in Vishnu and the Sanctification of Saptasarasvata
इति श्रीवामनपुराणे चतुस्त्रिंशो ऽध्यायः ब्रह्मोवाच परदाराभिगमनं पापीयांसोपसेवनम् पारुष्यं सर्वभूतानां प्रथमं नरकं स्मृतम्
iti śrīvāmanapurāṇe catustriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ brahmovāca paradārābhigamanaṃ pāpīyāṃsopasevanam pāruṣyaṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ prathamaṃ narakaṃ smṛtam
(Colofão) Assim termina o trigésimo quarto capítulo do Śrī Vāmana Purāṇa. Brahmā disse: “Aproximar-se da esposa de outro, associar-se aos pecaminosos e a crueldade áspera para com todos os seres—isto é lembrado como o primeiro inferno (isto é, a primeira categoria que conduz ao inferno).”
{ "primaryRasa": "bhayanaka", "secondaryRasa": "raudra", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }
They represent three foundational breaches: violation of household/social trust (adultery), corruption through habitual association (bad company), and direct harm through cruelty. Together they undermine dharma at personal, social, and universal (all beings) levels.
The compound emphasizes ‘resorting to/associating with the more sinful.’ In dharma literature, sustained association is treated as causative because it normalizes wrongdoing and draws one into shared karmic patterns.
In this excerpt it functions as an ordinal category (“the first [type leading to] hell”) rather than a named naraka like Tamisra, etc. A fuller passage may later supply specific naraka names and their punishments.