Varaha Purana 200.74: Adhyaya 200, Shloka 74

Description of the Forms of Infernal Torments

Naraka Yātanās

Devanagari script

चुल्लीकुक्षौ तु विश्रान्ता वेगिनी वहते तु सा ॥ तां समुत्तीऱ्य कृच्छ्रेण यातनाः सप्तकाः पुनः ॥

Sanskrit recitationVaraha Purana 200.74

Transliteration

cullī-kukṣau tu viśrāntā veginī vahate tu sā || tāṃ samuttīrya kṛcchreṇa yātanāḥ saptakāḥ punaḥ ||

Translation

เมื่อได้พักในท้องแห่ง (แม่น้ำชื่อ) จุลลีแล้ว กระแสน้ำอันเชี่ยวกรากนั้นก็พัดพาเขาไปต่อ. ครั้นข้ามได้ด้วยความยากลำบากแล้ว ทรมานทั้งเจ็ดประการก็เกิดขึ้นอีกครั้ง.

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Word by Word

• cullī-kukṣau: in the hearth and the belly (region)
• cullī-kukṣau: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण/locative)
• Type: Noun
• Root: cullī (प्रातिपदिक) + kukṣi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (7th/Locative); एकवचन; द्वन्द्व-समास (itaretara): चुल्ली च कुक्षिः च; समाहार/द्वन्द्वस्थ-स्थानवाचक

• tu: but, indeed
• tu: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; विरोध/अन्वय-निपात (but/indeed)

• viśrāntā: resting, settled
• viśrāntā: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: viśrānta (प्रातिपदिक; √śram with vi-)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा; एकवचन; भूतकृदन्त-विशेषण (past participial adjective)

• veginī: a swift (river/current)
• veginī: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: veginī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा; एकवचन

• vahate: carries, bears along
• vahate: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vah (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार; प्रथमपुरुष; एकवचन; आत्मनेपद; परस्मैपद-धातोः आत्मनेपद-रूप (middle)

• tu: indeed
• tu: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निपात

• sā: she/that (one)
• sā: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा; एकवचन; सर्वनाम (pronoun)

• tām: her/that (one)
• tām: Karma (कर्म/object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative); एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• samuttīrya: having crossed over
• samuttīrya: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण/absolutive)
• Type: Verb
• Root: sam + ut + tṝ (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त-अव्यय (gerund/absolutive); उपसर्ग: सम्-उत्-; अव्ययीभाववत् क्रियाविशेषण

• kṛcchreṇa: with difficulty
• kṛcchreṇa: Karaṇa (करण/instrument; manner)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kṛcchra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental); एकवचन

• yātanāḥ: tortures, punishments
• yātanāḥ: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yātanā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा; बहुवचन

• saptakāḥ: sevenfold; seven (sets)
• saptakāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: saptaka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा; बहुवचन; संख्यावाचक-विशेषण (group of seven)

• punaḥ: again
• punaḥ: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: punaḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; पुनरावृत्त्यर्थक क्रियाविशेषण (adverb: again)

Speaker

Varāha (default dialogic frame; speaker not explicit in excerpt)

Tags

• Purāṇic Literature
• Mythic Geography
• Sanskrit Studies
• Indian Eschatology

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It shows how Purāṇic texts construct imagined landscapes (rivers, mountains) to sequence moral consequences in narrative form.

Which geographic location is identified?

Cullī appears as a named river within an otherworldly punitive topography; it is not securely identifiable with a historical terrestrial river.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

The recurring ‘again’ emphasizes cyclic or repeated consequence: wrongdoing is depicted as leading to successive stages of hardship.