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Vamana Purana — Karmic Causes of Narakas, Shloka 28

Karmic Causes of Narakas and the Irremediability of Ingratitude (Kṛtaghna-doṣa)

Devanagari script

क्लेशयन्ति हि विप्रादीन् ये ह्यकर्मसु पापिनः ते पिष्यन्ते शिलापेषे शोष्यनते ऽपि च शोषकैः

Transliteration

kleśayanti hi viprādīn ye hyakarmasu pāpinaḥ te piṣyante śilāpeṣe śoṣyanate 'pi ca śoṣakaiḥ

Translation

నిషిద్ధ కర్మాలలో లీనమై బ్రాహ్మణులు మొదలైనవారిని బాధించే పాపులు శిలాపేషణంలో నూరబడతారు; ‘శోషకులు’ అనే యాతనకారుల చేత ఎండబెట్టబడతారు కూడా।

Word by Word

क्लेशयन्तिtorment

हिindeed

विप्रादीन्brahmins and others

येwho

हिindeed

अकर्मसुin wrongful acts

पापिनःsinners

तेthey

पिष्यन्तेare ground/crushed

शिलापेषेin a stone-mill/grinding (torture)

शोष्यन्तेare dried up

अपिalso

चand

शोषकैःby the dryers/drying agents (tormentors)

Speakers

Not specified in input (Vāmana Purāṇa commonly frames as Pulastya ↔ Nāradabut not asserted here).

Key Themes

Karma and retributionEthics (non-harm toward vipras)Naraka descriptions

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

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.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana?

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).

What is the symbolic significance?

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.