Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 10, Shloka 82
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
तत्राङ्गारचयोपेतं कृतञ्च धरणीसमम् ।
जाज्वल्यमानस्तीव्रेण तापिताङ्गारभूमिना ॥
tatrāṅgāracayopetaṃ kṛtañ ca dharaṇīsamam | jājvalyamānas tīvreṇa tāpitāṅgārabhūminā ||
其处地面平整如人间大地，却遍布炽红燃烧的煤堆——烈焰猛炽，遍地为灼热余烬所焦烤。
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FAQs
The ‘level ground’ shows that suffering can appear ordinary in form yet be extraordinary in pain—warning against normalizing unethical acts that later ripen into intense affliction.
Best treated as ancillary dharma/karmaphala instruction (not a core pancalakṣaṇa item), using cosmography of naraka to teach right conduct.
The coal-ground symbolizes the ‘heated’ field of saṃskāras: when the mind is made ‘level’ (habitual), latent fires still burn underneath, producing torment until purified.