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
असिपत्रवनं चान्यत्सहस्राणि द्विसप्ततिः योजनानां परिख्यातमष्टमं नरकोत्तमम्
asipatravanaṃ cānyatsahasrāṇi dvisaptatiḥ yojanānāṃ parikhyātamaṣṭamaṃ narakottamam
మరొక నరకం ‘అసిపత్రవనం’; ఇది డెబ్బై రెండు వేల యోజనాల విస్తీర్ణంతో ప్రసిద్ధి. దీనిని ఎనిమిదవది, నరకాలలో ప్రముఖమైనది, అని ప్రకటించారు.
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The text reinforces karma-phala: actions have proportionate consequences, and the vivid mapping of narakas functions as deterrence and as ethical instruction toward dharma.
This passage aligns best with Dharma/ācāra and karma-phala instruction (not one of the strict five like sarga/pratisarga, but commonly embedded within purāṇic teaching sections that support varṇāśrama-dharma and moral causality).
Asipatravana (“sword-leaf forest”) symbolizes the self-harming nature of adharma: one’s own misdeeds become the cutting ‘leaves’ that wound the doer, stressing moral retribution as intrinsic rather than arbitrary.