Vamana Purana — Sukesha's Boon & Twelve Dharmas, Shloka 56
Sukesha’s Boon, the Twelve Dharmas of Beings, and the Cosmography of the Seven Dvipas with the Twenty-One Hells
नमकं तप्तकुम्भं च दशमं कूटशाल्मलिः करपत्रस्तथैवोक्तस्तथान्यः श्वानभोजनः
namakaṃ taptakumbhaṃ ca daśamaṃ kūṭaśālmaliḥ karapatrastathaivoktastathānyaḥ śvānabhojanaḥ
‘நமகம்’ மற்றும் ‘தப்தகும்பம்’ எனும் நரகங்களும் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளன. பத்தாவது ‘கூடசால்மலி’. ‘கரபத்ரம்’ என்பதும் குறிப்பிடப்படுகிறது; மேலும் ‘ச்வானபோஜனம்’ எனும் மற்றொரு நரகமும் உள்ளது.
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FAQs
By cataloging specific narakas, the Purāṇa makes ethical causality concrete: harmful choices are not ‘abstract sins’ but lead to defined states of suffering, encouraging restraint, truthfulness, and compassion.
It is ancillary didactic material supporting dharma and varṇāśrama conduct; it is not genealogical (vaṃśa) or cosmic creation (sarga), but part of purāṇic moral instruction embedded within narrative teaching.
Names like Taptakumbha (boiling vessel) and Śvānabhojana (becoming ‘dog-food’) symbolize the ‘cooking’ of consequences and the loss of human dignity when one lives below dharma—imagery designed to provoke moral reflection.