The Five Hells and the Rebirth of Sinners

Verse 1 (13.230.1)

भगवंस्ते कथं तत्र दण्ड्यन्ते नरकेषु वै । कति ते नरका घोराः कीदृशास्ते महेश्वर ॥

bhagavaṃste kathaṃ tatra daṇḍyante narakeṣu vai | kati te narakā ghorāḥ kīdṛśāste maheśvara

O Lord, how are they punished there in the hells? How many hells are there, and what are they like, O Maheshvara?

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2683-2684.

Verse 2 (13.230.2)

शृणु भामिनि तत्सर्वं पञ्चैते नरकाः स्मृताः । भूमेरधस्ताद्विहिता घोरा दुष्कृतकर्मणाम् ॥

śṛṇu bhāmini tatsarvaṃ pañcaite narakāḥ smṛtāḥ | bhūmeradhastādvihitā ghorā duṣkṛtakarmaṇām

Listen to all of it, O lovely lady: five hells are reckoned, set below the earth, dreadful, for those whose deeds are evil.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2685-2686.

Verse 3 (13.230.3)

प्रथमं रौरवं नाम शतयोजनमायतम् । तावत्प्रमाणविस्तीर्णं तामसं पापपीडितम् ॥

prathamaṃ rauravaṃ nāma śatayojanamāyatam | tāvatpramāṇavistīrṇaṃ tāmasaṃ pāpapīḍitam

The first is called Raurava, a hundred yojanas long and as wide, dark, tormenting sinners.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2687-2688.

Verse 4 (13.230.4)

भृशं दुर्गन्धि परुषं क्रिमिभिर्दारुणैर्वृतम् । अतिघोरमनिर्देश्यं प्रतिकूलं ततस्ततः ॥

bhṛśaṃ durgandhi paruṣaṃ krimibhirdāruṇairvṛtam | atighoramanirdeśyaṃ pratikūlaṃ tatastataḥ

It is very foul-smelling and rough, covered with terrible worms, exceedingly dreadful and beyond description, hostile on every side.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2689-2690.

Verse 5 (13.230.5)

ते चिरं तत्र तिष्ठन्ति न तत्र शयनासने । क्रिमिभिर्भक्ष्यमाणाश्च विष्ठागन्धसमायुताः ॥

te ciraṃ tatra tiṣṭhanti na tatra śayanāsane | krimibhirbhakṣyamāṇāśca viṣṭhāgandhasamāyutāḥ

They stay there a long time, with no bed or seat, eaten by worms and reeking of filth.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2691-2692.

Verse 6 (13.230.6)

एवंप्रमाणमुद्विग्ना यावत्तिष्ठन्ति तत्र ते । यातनाभ्यो दशगुणं नरके दुःखमिष्यते ॥

evaṃpramāṇamudvignā yāvattiṣṭhanti tatra te | yātanābhyo daśaguṇaṃ narake duḥkhamiṣyate

For as long as, in distress, they remain there in such measure, the pain in that hell is held to be ten times that of the torments.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2693-2694.

Verse 7 (13.230.7)

तत्र चात्यन्तिकं दुःखमिष्यते च शुभेक्षणे । क्रोशन्तश्च रुदन्तश्च वेदनास्तत्र भुञ्जते ॥

tatra cātyantikaṃ duḥkhamiṣyate ca śubhekṣaṇe | krośantaśca rudantaśca vedanāstatra bhuñjate

There the pain is without end, O fair-eyed one; shrieking and weeping, they suffer agonies there.

Note on the text: Corrected तत्रि → तत्र (misprint in Wikisource; misprint for tatra; the critical edition reads tatra). Corrected रुद्रन्तश्च → रुदन्तश्च (misprint in Wikisource; misprint for rudantaś ca; the critical edition reads rudantaś ca). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2695-2696.

Verse 8 (13.230.8)

भ्रमन्ति दुःखमोक्षार्थं ज्ञाता कश्चिन्न विद्यते । दुःखस्यान्तरमात्रं तु ज्ञानं वा न च लभ्यते ॥

bhramanti duḥkhamokṣārthaṃ jñātā kaścinna vidyate | duḥkhasyāntaramātraṃ tu jñānaṃ vā na ca labhyate

They wander about to be free of the pain, but no one is found who knows a way; not even a pause in the suffering, nor any knowledge of release, is to be had.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2697-2698.

Verse 9 (13.230.9)

महारौरवसंज्ञं तु द्वितीयं नरकं प्रिये । तस्माद्द्विगुणितं विद्धि माने दुःखे च रौरवात् ॥

mahārauravasaṃjñaṃ tu dvitīyaṃ narakaṃ priye | tasmāddviguṇitaṃ viddhi māne duḥkhe ca rauravāt

The second hell, dear one, is called Maharaurava; know it to be twice Raurava in size and in suffering.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2699-2700.

Verse 10 (13.230.10)

तृतीयं नरकं तत्र कण्टकावनसंज्ञितम् । ततो द्विगुणितं तच्च पूर्वाभ्यां दुःखमानयोः । महापातकसंयुक्ता घोरास्तस्मिन्विशन्ति हि ॥

tṛtīyaṃ narakaṃ tatra kaṇṭakāvanasaṃjñitam | tato dviguṇitaṃ tacca pūrvābhyāṃ duḥkhamānayoḥ | mahāpātakasaṃyuktā ghorāstasminviśanti hi

The third hell there is called Kantakavana, the Forest of Thorns; it is twice again the earlier two in suffering and in measure. Those guilty of the great sins enter it, terrible as they are.

Note on the text: Corrected कण्टिकावन → कण्टकावन (misprint in Wikisource; misprint; the critical edition reads kaṇṭakāvana). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2701-2703.

Verse 11 (13.230.11)

अग्निकुण्डमिति ख्यातं चतुर्थं नरकं प्रिये । एतद्द्विगुणितं तस्माद्यथानिष्टसुखं तथा ॥

agnikuṇḍamiti khyātaṃ caturthaṃ narakaṃ priye | etaddviguṇitaṃ tasmādyathāniṣṭasukhaṃ tathā

The fourth hell, dear one, is known as Agnikunda, the Fire-pit. It is twice the last, and whatever ease it holds is of a kind no one would want.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2704-2705.

Verse 12 (13.230.12)

ततो दुःखं हि सुमहदमानुषमिति स्मृतम् । भुञ्जते तत्रतत्रैव दुःखं दुष्कृतकारिणः ॥

tato duḥkhaṃ hi sumahadamānuṣamiti smṛtam | bhuñjate tatratatraiva duḥkhaṃ duṣkṛtakāriṇaḥ

Beyond that, the suffering is exceedingly great and is called superhuman. The evildoers endure that pain in each of these places alike.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2706-2707.

Verse 13 (13.230.13)

तत्र दुःखमनिर्देश्यं वहद्धोरं यथा तथा । पञ्चेन्द्रियैरसम्बाधात्पञ्चकष्टमिति स्मृतम् । भुञ्जते तत्रतत्रैव दुःखं दुष्कृतकारिणः ॥

tatra duḥkhamanirdeśyaṃ vahaddhoraṃ yathā tathā | pañcendriyairasambādhātpañcakaṣṭamiti smṛtam | bhuñjate tatratatraiva duḥkhaṃ duṣkṛtakāriṇaḥ

The pain there is indescribable and dreadful in every way. Because the five senses cannot be free of it, it is called Panchakashta, the Fivefold Torment. The evildoers endure that pain in each of these places alike.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2709-2711. The critical edition has one more line before these (2708, the naming of the fifth hell, Panchakashta), which Wikisource lacks; it is not added.

Verse 14 (13.230.14)

अमानुषार्हजं दुःखं महाभूतैश्च भुञ्जते । अतिघोरं चिरं कृत्वा महाभूतानि यान्ति तम् ॥

amānuṣārhajaṃ duḥkhaṃ mahābhūtaiśca bhuñjate | atighoraṃ ciraṃ kṛtvā mahābhūtāni yānti tam

The pain fit only for the non-human is borne by the great beings; after long enduring what is most terrible, the great beings pass on to it.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2712-2713.

Verse 15 (13.230.15)

पञ्चकष्टेन हि समं नास्ति दुःखं तथा परम् । दुःखस्थानमिति प्राहुः पञ्चकष्टमिति प्रिये ॥

pañcakaṣṭena hi samaṃ nāsti duḥkhaṃ tathā param | duḥkhasthānamiti prāhuḥ pañcakaṣṭamiti priye

There is no suffering equal to Panchakashta, nor any beyond it. They call it the very abode of pain, dear one: Panchakashta.

Note on the text: Corrected पञ्च् कष्टेन → पञ्चकष्टेन (misprint in Wikisource; stray virama and space; the critical edition reads pañcakaṣṭena). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2714-2715.

Verse 16 (13.230.16)

एवं त्वेतेषु तिष्ठन्ति प्राणिनो दुःखभागिनः । अन्ये च नरकाः सन्ति अवीचिप्रमुखाः प्रिये ॥

evaṃ tveteṣu tiṣṭhanti prāṇino duḥkhabhāginaḥ | anye ca narakāḥ santi avīcipramukhāḥ priye

Thus creatures who share in the suffering stay in these. There are other hells too, dear one, with Avichi at their head.

Note on the text: Corrected प्राणिनोः → प्राणिनो (misprint in Wikisource; stray visarga; the critical edition reads prāṇino). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2716-2717.

Verse 17 (13.230.17)

क्रोशन्तश्च रुदन्तश्च वेदनार्ता भृशातुराः । केचिद्भ्रमन्तश्चेष्टन्ते केचिद्धावन्ति चातुराः ॥

krośantaśca rudantaśca vedanārtā bhṛśāturāḥ | kecidbhramantaśceṣṭante keciddhāvanti cāturāḥ

Crying out and weeping, racked with pain and greatly distraught, some wander and writhe, some run about in their distress.

Note on the text: Corrected वेदनर्ता → वेदनार्ता (misprint in Wikisource; dropped long ā; the critical edition reads vedanārtā). Corrected केचिद्भमन्त → केचिद्भ्रमन्त (misprint in Wikisource; dropped ra in the conjunct; the critical edition reads bhramanti). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2718-2719.

Verse 18 (13.230.18)

आधावन्तो निवार्यन्ते शूलहस्तैर्यतस्ततः । रुजार्दितास्तृषायुक्ताः प्राणिनः पापकारिणः ॥

ādhāvanto nivāryante śūlahastairyatastataḥ | rujārditāstṛṣāyuktāḥ prāṇinaḥ pāpakāriṇaḥ

As they rush up they are driven back here and there by men with tridents in their hands, these sinful creatures, sick and parched with thirst.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2720-2721.

Verse 19 (13.230.19)

यावत्पूर्वकृतं तावन्न मुच्यन्ते कथञ्चन । क्रिमिभिर्भक्ष्यमाणाश्च वेदनार्तास्तृषान्विताः ॥

yāvatpūrvakṛtaṃ tāvanna mucyante kathañcana | krimibhirbhakṣyamāṇāśca vedanārtāstṛṣānvitāḥ

As long as what was done before lasts, they are in no way released, eaten by worms, racked with pain and parched with thirst.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2722-2723. Line a differs from the critical edition's line 2722, which has a different wording; line b matches 2723.

Verse 20 (13.230.20)

संस्मरन्तः स्वकं पापं कृतमात्मापराधजम् । शोचन्तस्तत्र तिष्ठन्ति यावत्पापक्षयं प्रिये । एवं भुक्त्वा तु नरकं मुच्यन्ते पापसंक्षयात् ॥

saṃsmarantaḥ svakaṃ pāpaṃ kṛtamātmāparādhajam | śocantastatra tiṣṭhanti yāvatpāpakṣayaṃ priye | evaṃ bhuktvā tu narakaṃ mucyante pāpasaṃkṣayāt

Remembering their own sin, the wrong they themselves committed, they remain there grieving until the sin is spent, dear one. Having thus endured the hell, they are released when their sin is wholly destroyed.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2724-2726.

Verse 21 (13.230.21)

भगवन्कतिकालं ते तिष्ठन्ति नरकेषु वै ॥

bhagavankatikālaṃ te tiṣṭhanti narakeṣu vai

O Lord, for how long do they stay in the hells?

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), line 2727.

Verse 22 (13.230.22)

शतवर्षसहस्राणामादिं कृत्वा हि जन्तवः । तिष्ठन्ति नरकावासाः प्रलयान्तमिति स्थितिः ॥

śatavarṣasahasrāṇāmādiṃ kṛtvā hi jantavaḥ | tiṣṭhanti narakāvāsāḥ pralayāntamiti sthitiḥ

Beginning with a hundred thousand years, creatures remain in the hell-abodes until the end of the age: such is the rule.

Note on the text: Joined two input rows into one verse: the page prints them as a single verse (the verse-end mark falls only after the second line; the parser had split them). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2729-2730.

Verse 23 (13.230.23)

भगवंस्तेषु के तत्र तिष्ठन्तीति वद प्रभो ॥

bhagavaṃsteṣu ke tatra tiṣṭhantīti vada prabho

O Lord, who stay in which of them? Tell me.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), line 2731.

Verse 24 (13.230.24)

रौरवे शतसाहस्रं वर्षाणामिति संस्थितिः । मानुषघ्नाः कृतघ्नाश्च तथैवानृतवादिनः ॥

raurave śatasāhasraṃ varṣāṇāmiti saṃsthitiḥ | mānuṣaghnāḥ kṛtaghnāśca tathaivānṛtavādinaḥ

In Raurava the term is a hundred thousand years, so it is fixed — for killers of men, the ungrateful, and likewise liars.

Note on the text: Joined two input rows into one verse: the page prints them as a single verse (the verse-end mark falls only after the second line; the parser had split them). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2732-2733.

Verse 25 (13.230.25)

द्वितीये द्विगुणं कालं पच्यन्ते तादृशा नराः । महापातकयुक्तास्तु तृतीये दुःखमाप्नुयुः ॥

dvitīye dviguṇaṃ kālaṃ pacyante tādṛśā narāḥ | mahāpātakayuktāstu tṛtīye duḥkhamāpnuyuḥ

In the second, such men are cooked for twice the time; those guilty of the great sins suffer in the third.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2742-2743. The critical edition has eight lines between this and the previous verse (2734-2741, a catalogue of the offenders sent to Raurava) which Wikisource lacks; they are not added.

Verse 26 (13.230.26)

एतावन्मानुषसहं परमन्येषु लक्ष्यते ॥

etāvanmānuṣasahaṃ paramanyeṣu lakṣyate

Up to this much a human can endure; beyond it is seen in the case of others.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), line 2744.

Verse 27 (13.230.27)

यक्षा विद्याधराश्चैव काद्रवेयाश्च किंनराः । गन्धर्वभूतसङ्घाश्च तेषां पापयुता भृशम् । चतुर्थे परिपच्यन्ते तादृशा नरकाः स्मृताः । चतुर्थे परितप्यन्ते यावद्युगविपर्ययः ॥

yakṣā vidyādharāścaiva kādraveyāśca kiṃnarāḥ | gandharvabhūtasaṅghāśca teṣāṃ pāpayutā bhṛśam | caturthe paripacyante tādṛśā narakāḥ smṛtāḥ | caturthe paritapyante yāvadyugaviparyayaḥ

Yakshas, Vidyadharas, the sons of Kadru, Kinnaras, Gandharvas and hosts of spirits who are greatly stained with sin are cooked in the fourth; such are the hells remembered. In the fourth they are scorched until the turning of the age.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2745-2747. Lines c and d are two versions of the one line the critical edition has at 2747 (it has three lines here, 2745-2747); the page puts its verse-end mark after line c and only a single danda after line d, but the four lines are kept as one verse.

Verse 28 (13.230.28)

सहन्तस्तादृशं घोरं पञ्चकष्टे तु यादृशम् । तत्रास्य चिरदुःखस्य ह्यधोन्यान्विद्धि मानुषान् ॥

sahantastādṛśaṃ ghoraṃ pañcakaṣṭe tu yādṛśam | tatrāsya ciraduḥkhasya hyadhonyānviddhi mānuṣān

They endure a suffering as dreadful as that in Panchakashta. Of this long pain, know humans to be the lowest, set against the others.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2748-2749. Line b is a variant of the critical edition's 2749.

Verse 29 (13.230.29)

एवं ते नरकान्भुक्त्वा तत्र क्षपितकल्मषाः । नरकेभ्यो विमुक्ताश्च जायन्ते कृमिजातिषु ॥

evaṃ te narakānbhuktvā tatra kṣapitakalmaṣāḥ | narakebhyo vimuktāśca jāyante kṛmijātiṣu

Having thus gone through the hells and had their sins worn away there, they are released from the hells and are born among worms.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2750-2751.

Verse 30 (13.230.30)

उद्भेदजेषु वा केचिदत्रापि क्षीणकल्मषाः । पुनरेव प्रजायन्ते मृगपक्षिषु शोभने । मृगपक्षिषु तद्भुक्त्वा लभन्ते मानुषं पदम् ॥

udbhedajeṣu vā kecidatrāpi kṣīṇakalmaṣāḥ | punareva prajāyante mṛgapakṣiṣu śobhane | mṛgapakṣiṣu tadbhuktvā labhante mānuṣaṃ padam

Some, their sins worn away even there, are born among plants; others are born again, fair lady, among beasts and birds. Having passed through beasts and birds, they obtain the human state.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2752-2754.

Verse 31 (13.230.31)

नानाजातिषु केनैव जायन्ते पापकारिणः ॥

nānājātiṣu kenaiva jāyante pāpakāriṇaḥ

By what cause are sinners born into the various kinds of birth?

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), line 2755.

Verse 32 (13.230.32)

तदहं ते प्रवक्ष्यामि यत्त्वमिच्छसि शोभने । सर्वदाऽऽत्मा कर्मवशो नानाजातिषु जायते ॥

tadahaṃ te pravakṣyāmi yattvamicchasi śobhane | sarvadā''tmā karmavaśo nānājātiṣu jāyate

I shall tell you that, since you wish it, fair lady. The self, ruled by its deeds, is always born into the various kinds of birth.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2756-2757.

Verse 33 (13.230.33)

यश्च मांसप्रियो नित्यं काकगृध्रान्स संस्पृशेत् । सुरापः सततं मर्त्यः सूकरत्वं व्रजेद्भुवम् ॥

yaśca māṃsapriyo nityaṃ kākagṛdhrānsa saṃspṛśet | surāpaḥ satataṃ martyaḥ sūkaratvaṃ vrajedbhuvam

One who is always fond of meat comes among crows and vultures; the man who always drinks liquor goes surely to the state of a boar.

Note on the text: Corrected काकगृध्नान् → काकगृध्रान् (misprint in Wikisource; misprint for gṛdhrān; the critical edition reads kaṅkagṛdhrān). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2758-2759.

Verse 34 (13.230.34)

अभक्ष्यभक्षणो मर्त्यः काकजातिषु जायते । आत्मघ्नो यो नरः कोपात्प्रेतजातिषु तिष्ठति ॥

abhakṣyabhakṣaṇo martyaḥ kākajātiṣu jāyate | ātmaghno yo naraḥ kopātpretajātiṣu tiṣṭhati

A mortal who eats forbidden food is born among crows. The man who kills himself in anger remains among the kinds of ghosts.

Note on the text: Corrected प्रेतजातिसु → प्रेतजातिषु (misprint in Wikisource; misprint for pretajātiṣu; the critical edition reads pretajātiṣu). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2760, 2762. The critical edition's line 2761 (a mortal who always causes others alarm is born among beasts of prey) is not on the page.

Verse 35 (13.230.35)

पैशुन्यात्परिवादाच्च कुक्कुटत्वमवाप्नुयात् । नास्तिकश्चैव यो मूर्खो मृगजातिं स गच्छति ॥

paiśunyātparivādācca kukkuṭatvamavāpnuyāt | nāstikaścaiva yo mūrkho mṛgajātiṃ sa gacchati

From slander and backbiting one would become a cock; the foolish unbeliever goes to the deer kind.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2763-2764.

Verse 36 (13.230.36)

हिंसाविहारस्तु नरः क्रिमिकीटेषु जायते । अतिमानयुतो नित्यं प्रेत्य गर्दभतां व्रजेत् ॥

hiṃsāvihārastu naraḥ krimikīṭeṣu jāyate | atimānayuto nityaṃ pretya gardabhatāṃ vrajet

A man given to violence is born among worms and insects; one ever puffed up with pride becomes an ass after death.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2765-2766.

Verse 37 (13.230.37)

अगम्यागमनाच्चैव परदारनिषेवणात् । मूषिकत्वं व्रजेन्मर्त्यो नास्ति तत्र विचारणा ॥

agamyāgamanāccaiva paradāraniṣevaṇāt | mūṣikatvaṃ vrajenmartyo nāsti tatra vicāraṇā

Through intercourse with the forbidden and attending on others' wives, a man goes to the state of a mouse; there is no doubt of it.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2768-2769.

Verse 38 (13.230.38)

कृतघ्नो मित्रघाती च सृगालवृकजातिषु । कृतघ्नः पुत्रघाती च स्थावरेष्वथ तिष्ठति ॥

kṛtaghno mitraghātī ca sṛgālavṛkajātiṣu | kṛtaghnaḥ putraghātī ca sthāvareṣvatha tiṣṭhati

The ungrateful and the killer of a friend are born among jackals and wolves; the ungrateful and the killer of a son remain among things that do not move.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2770-2771. The critical edition has two lines after this (2772-2773) that are not on the page.

Verse 39 (13.230.39)

एवमाद्यशुभं कृत्वा नरा निरयगामिनः । तांस्तान्भावान्प्रपद्यन्ते स्वकृतस्यैव कारणात् ॥

evamādyaśubhaṃ kṛtvā narā nirayagāminaḥ | tāṃstānbhāvānprapadyante svakṛtasyaiva kāraṇāt

Having done such evil and more, men bound for hell take on those very states, by reason of their own deeds.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2774-2775.

Verse 40 (13.230.40)

एवंजातिषु निर्देश्याः प्राणिनः पापकारिणः । कथंचित्पुनरुत्पद्य लभन्ते मानुषं पदम् ॥

evaṃjātiṣu nirdeśyāḥ prāṇinaḥ pāpakāriṇaḥ | kathaṃcitpunarutpadya labhante mānuṣaṃ padam

Sinful creatures are to be assigned to such births; somehow, being born again, they obtain the human state.

Note on the text: Corrected रुत्पद्यि → रुत्पद्य (misprint in Wikisource; misprint for utpadya; the critical edition reads utpadya). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2776-2777.

Verse 41 (13.230.41)

बहुशश्चाग्निसङ्क्रान्तं लोहं शुचिमयं तथा । बहुदुःखाभिसन्तप्तस्तथाऽऽत्मा शोध्यते बलात् । तस्मात्सुदुर्लभं चेति विद्धि जन्मसु मानुषम् ॥

bahuśaścāgnisaṅkrāntaṃ lohaṃ śucimayaṃ tathā | bahuduḥkhābhisantaptastathā''tmā śodhyate balāt | tasmātsudurlabhaṃ ceti viddhi janmasu mānuṣam

As iron, put into the fire many times, becomes pure, so the self, scorched by much suffering, is forcibly purified. Therefore know that a human birth is very hard to obtain among births.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 2778-2780.