Vamana Purana — Sukesha's Boon & Twelve Dharmas, Shloka 57
Sukesha’s Boon, the Twelve Dharmas of Beings, and the Cosmography of the Seven Dvipas with the Twenty-One Hells
संदंशो लोहपिण्डश्च करम्भसिकता तथा घोरा क्षारनदी चान्या तथान्यः कृमिभोजनः तथाष्टादशमी प्रोक्ता घोरा वैतरणी नदी
saṃdaṃśo lohapiṇḍaśca karambhasikatā tathā ghorā kṣāranadī cānyā tathānyaḥ kṛmibhojanaḥ tathāṣṭādaśamī proktā ghorā vaitaraṇī nadī
(ในหมู่นรกทั้งหลาย) มี สํทํศะ, โลหปิณฑะ และ กรัมภสิกตา อีกแห่งหนึ่งคือ กษารนที อันน่าสยดสยอง (แม่น้ำกัดกร่อน) และอีกแห่งคือ กฤมิภोजन. ดังนี้ นรกที่สิบแปดได้ประกาศว่าเป็นแม่น้ำไวตรณีอันน่ากลัว.
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FAQs
The passage teaches accountability beyond death: adharma shapes one’s post-mortem trajectory, urging ethical living (ahiṃsā, satya, self-control, generosity) as protection against suffering states.
It functions as purāṇic instruction on karma and its results (phala-śruti style teaching). While not one of the five strict lakṣaṇas, it supports the Purāṇa’s dharmic mandate that undergirds vaṃśānucarita and narrative episodes.
Vaitaraṇī symbolizes the liminal crossing after death: a ‘river’ of consequences separating embodied life from retributive experience. Rivers like Kṣāranadī encode the idea that the moral ‘toxicity’ one generates becomes the environment one must traverse.