Shloka 59
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
विभीषणाः पूतिगन्धाः कूटमुद्गरपाणयः ।
आगच्छन्ति दुरात्मानो यमस्य पुरुषास्तदा ॥
vibhīṣaṇāḥ pūtigandhāḥ kūṭamudgarapāṇayaḥ / āgacchanti durātmāno yamasya puruṣās tadā
ततः यमस्य पुरुषा घोराः दुर्गन्धिनः, हस्तेषु गुरुगदाधराः, ते पापात्मानः समायान्ति॥
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FAQs
The Purāṇa uses vivid imagery of Yama’s attendants to underscore moral causality: unethical living conditions the psyche to meet death with terror and coercion rather than calmness.
Ancillary didactic/eschatological material, not pancalakṣaṇa proper.
Yama’s ‘terrifying forms’ can be read as externalizations of one’s own unresolved karmic impressions; the mace symbolizes the force of karma that compels the jīva when discernment and merit are absent.