Kurma Purana — Uttara Bhaga, Shloka 8
Agnihotra, Seasonal Śrauta Duties, and the Authority of Śruti–Smṛti–Purāṇa
तामिस्त्रमन्धतामिस्त्रं महारौरवरौरवौ / कुम्भीपाकं वैतरणीमसिपत्रवनं तथा
tāmistramandhatāmistraṃ mahārauravarauravau / kumbhīpākaṃ vaitaraṇīmasipatravanaṃ tathā
تامِسْر، اندھتامِسْر، مہارَورَو اور رَورَو؛ نیز کُمبھِیپاک، ویتَرَنی اور اسیپترون (تلوار پتّوں کا جنگل) بھی ہیں۔
Primary narrator (Purāṇic narration, traditionally Sūta speaking to the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya)
Primary Rasa: bhayanaka
Secondary Rasa: bibhatsa
FAQs
Indirectly: by listing hell-realms as karmic results, it implies the Ātman is distinct from suffering and transmigratory states; bondage and pain arise from karma and adharma, not from the Self’s intrinsic nature.
No specific yogic technique is stated in this verse; its practical thrust is ethical—restraint (yama), dharmic conduct, and purification of action to avoid destructive karmic destinations, which the Kurma Purana later integrates with devotional and Pāśupata-oriented discipline.
It does not name Śiva or Viṣṇu directly; however, within the Kurma Purana’s Shaiva–Vaishnava synthesis, the warning about narakas functions as a shared dharmic framework upheld by the one Supreme Lord revered through both Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava idioms.