Shloka 36
Adhyaya 12 — The Son Describes the Narakas: Mahāraurava, Tamas, Nikṛntana, Apratiṣṭha, Asipatravana, and Taptakumbha
क्वाथ्यन्ते विस्फुटद्गात्र-गलन्मज्जजलाविलाः ।
स्फुरत्कपालनेत्रास्थिच्छिद्यमाना विभीषणैः ॥
kvāthyante visphuṭadgātra-galanmajjajalāvilāḥ / sphuratkapālanetrāsthicchidyamānā vibhīṣaṇaiḥ
Chúng bị luộc sôi—tứ chi nổ tung, chất lỏng đục ngầu vì tủy xương nhỏ giọt và chảy tràn—trong khi những loài đáng sợ chém xẻ chúng giữa những sọ, mắt và xương lóe sáng.
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FAQs
The extremity of imagery is pedagogical: it aims to shock the listener into ethical self-regulation and to affirm that embodied harm caused to others returns as embodied suffering.
Didactic material reinforcing dharma and karma-phala; not directly sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita.
Boiling and disintegration symbolize the dissolution of the ‘constructed self’ under the pressure of one’s own actions; the skull-eye-bone motifs underscore mortality and the stripping away of pretenses.