Shloka 85
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
एवं सहस्रमुत्तीर्णो योजनानां विमुच्यते ।
ततो 'न्यं पापशुद्ध्यर्थं तादृङ्निरयमृच्छति ॥
evaṃ sahasramuttīrṇo yojanānāṃ vimucyate | tato 'nyaṃ pāpaśuddhyarthaṃ tādṛṅnirayamṛcchati ||
یوں وہ ہزار یوجن عبور کر کے اس عذاب سے رہائی پاتا ہے۔ پھر دوسرے گناہوں کی تطہیر کے لیے وہ اسی قسم کے ایک اور دوزخ میں جاتا ہے۔
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FAQs
Suffering is portrayed as exhaustible in proportion to deeds: pāpa is ‘worked off’ through experience, reinforcing accountability and the hope of eventual release through purification.
Didactic karmaphala teaching; ancillary to pancalakṣaṇa, serving dharma instruction through afterlife cosmology.
The ‘crossing’ motif encodes inner tapas: repeated confrontations with the fruits of one’s actions gradually burn impurities, though the cycle continues until all residues are resolved.