Shloka 76
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
द्वादशाहात् परं घोरमायसं भीषणाकृतिम् ।
याम्यं पश्यत्यथो जन्तुः कृष्यमाणः पुरं ततः ॥
dvādaśāhāt paraṃ ghoramāyasaṃ bhīṣaṇākṛtim /
yāmyaṃ paśyatyatho jantuḥ kṛṣyamāṇaḥ puraṃ tataḥ
十二日之后，那众生在被拖拽前行时，见到可怖的阎摩之城（Yāmya）——以铁铸成，形相骇人——正被牵引至彼城。
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FAQs
The narrative dramatizes moral consequence: the inevitability of being ‘led’ to judgment reinforces restraint, truthfulness, and dharmic conduct while alive.
Not pañcalakṣaṇa; it is naraka/preta-gati instruction within Purāṇic dharma teaching.
The iron city symbolizes the hard, inescapable structure of karmic law—an objective order that the jīva encounters when personal narratives and social status fall away.