Shloka 4
Adhyaya 12 — The Son Describes the Narakas: Mahāraurava, Tamas, Nikṛntana, Apratiṣṭha, Asipatravana, and Taptakumbha
योजनानां सहस्राणि सप्त पञ्च समन्ततः ।
तत्र ताम्रमयी भूमिरधस्तस्य हुताशनः ॥
yojanānāṃ sahasrāṇi sapta pañca samantataḥ /
tatra tāmramayī bhūmir adhas tasya hutāśanaḥ
โดยรอบทุกทิศเป็นระยะเจ็ดและห้าพันโยชน์ มีพื้นดินทำด้วยทองแดง; และเบื้องล่างนั้นมีไฟตั้งอยู่.
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FAQs
Actions (karma) have concrete consequences; the imagery of a vast copper ground over fire stresses the inescapability and intensity of suffering produced by sustained wrongdoing.
Primarily Dharma/Karma instruction rather than the five-fold purāṇic topics; it aligns most closely with subsidiary didactic material often embedded alongside cosmological descriptions (aṇuśāsana / naraka-varṇana).
Copper (tāmra) and fire together symbolize the hardening and heating of the embodied mind by vice: a ‘conductive’ field where latent impurities are made manifest as burning experience.