कीर्तयिष्यामि तेषां ते प्राधान्येन द्विजोत्तम । एकविंशतिसंख्या ये पापिलोककृते कृताः
kīrtayiṣyāmi teṣāṃ te prādhānyena dvijottama | ekaviṃśatisaṃkhyā ye pāpilokakṛte kṛtāḥ
“اے بہترین دْوِج! میں ان میں سے اہم ترین دوزخیں تمہیں بیان کروں گا—اکیس کی تعداد میں—جو گناہ گاروں کی دنیا کے لیے مقرر کی گئی ہیں۔”
Yama (Dharmarāja)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Brāhmaṇa
Scene: Yama begins a formal teaching: a scroll or symbolic ‘register’ of twenty-one principal hells; attendants stand with ledgers; the brāhmaṇa listens like a student receiving a structured syllabus.
Scripture teaches consequences in a structured way to deter sin and encourage dharmic conduct.
No site is named in this verse; it introduces a doctrinal list.
None; it announces an upcoming enumeration of narakas.