Vamana Purana — Karmic Causes of Narakas, Shloka 28
Karmic Causes of Narakas and the Irremediability of Ingratitude (Kṛtaghna-doṣa)
क्लेशयन्ति हि विप्रादीन् ये ह्यकर्मसु पापिनः ते पिष्यन्ते शिलापेषे शोष्यनते ऽपि च शोषकैः
kleśayanti hi viprādīn ye hyakarmasu pāpinaḥ te piṣyante śilāpeṣe śoṣyanate 'pi ca śoṣakaiḥ
தடைசெய்யப்பட்ட செயல்களில் ஈடுபட்டு பிராமணர் முதலியவர்களைத் துன்புறுத்தும் பாவிகள் கல்-அழுத்தியில் அரைக்கப்படுவர்; மேலும் ‘சோஷகர்’ எனும் வேதனையாளர்களால் உலர்த்தப்படுவர்।
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FAQs
The verse reinforces dharma by warning that harming socially/religiously protected persons (vipras) and engaging in prohibited conduct rebounds as intense suffering; moral injury to others becomes karmic injury to oneself.
This is not sarga/pratisarga/vamśa material; it aligns best with dharma/ācāra and karmaphala teaching often embedded within Purāṇic narration (a didactic subsection rather than a core pañcalakṣaṇa item).
Grinding in a stone-press and forced desiccation symbolize the ‘compression’ and ‘drying up’ of merit and vitality caused by cruelty and adharma—inner hardness (stone-like cruelty) yields stone-like punishment.