Shloka 52
Sukesha's Boon & Twelve Dharmas — Sukesha’s Boon, the Twelve Dharmas of Beings, and the Cosmography of the Seven Dvipas with the Twenty-One Hells
तप्तताम्रमयी भूमिरधस्ताद्वाह्नितापिता द्वितीयो द्विगुस्तस्मान्महारौरव उच्यते
taptatāmramayī bhūmiradhastādvāhnitāpitā dvitīyo dvigustasmānmahāraurava ucyate
अधस्तात् तप्तताम्रमयी भूमिरस्ति, सा वह्नितापिता दग्धा च। तस्मात् पूर्वनरकात् द्विगुणतरो द्वितीयो नरकः ‘महाराौरवः’ इति कथ्यते।
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FAQs
The verse reinforces karmic moral causality: harmful actions lead to proportionate suffering. The ‘twofold’ escalation signals graded consequences rather than arbitrary punishment, urging restraint and dhārmic conduct.
This passage aligns best with Dharma/ācāra instruction embedded within purāṇic narration (not one of the strict five topics as a standalone). It is adjacent to cosmological mapping (sarga-style world-structure) insofar as it catalogs realms, but functionally serves ethical exhortation.
Heated copper ground symbolizes the ‘burning’ nature of adharma—inner moral heat externalized as environment. The intensification (dvigu) encodes the idea that repeated or aggravated wrongdoing compounds its results.