योगयुक्तैः सिद्धियुक्तैर्नानारूपधरैर्भटैः । आसन्नमृत्युभिर्दृष्टैः पापिभिः सर्वजीविभिः
United with yoga, endowed with powers, warriors assuming various forms; seen as those near death, sinful, and all living beings.
स्वकर्मनिरतैः सर्वैः शाक्तैः सौरैश्च गाणपैः । अदृश्यैः पुण्यकृद्भिश्च सिद्धैर्योगिभिरेव च
All engaged in their own actions—followers of Shakti, of Surya, and of Gana; invisible, doers of virtue, accomplished ones, and yogis as well.
स्वधर्मनिरतैर्वापि विततैर्वा स्वतन्त्रकैः । बलवद्भिश्च निःशङ्कैः स्वप्नदृष्टैश्च वैष्णवैः
Either devoted to their own duty or widespread and independent; powerful, fearless, and those seen in dreams, as well as Vaishnavas.
एतत्ते कथितं साध्वि कुण्डसंख्यानिरूपणम् । येषां निवासो यत्कुण्डे निबोध कथयामि ते
O virtuous one, this has been told to you: the enumeration of the kundas. Listen, I will tell you in which kunda each resides.
इति श्रीमद्देवीभागवते महापुराणेऽष्टादशसाहस्र्यां संहितायां नवमस्कन्धे नारायणनारदसंवादे सावित्र्युपाख्याने कुण्डसंख्यानिरूपणं नाम द्वात्रिंशोऽध्यायः
Thus ends the thirty-second chapter, 'Enumeration of the Kundas,' in the narrative of Savitri, in the dialogue between Narayana and Narada, in the ninth book of the glorious Devi Bhagavata Mahapurana, comprising eighteen thousand verses.
नानाकर्मविपाकफलकथनम् धर्मराज उवाच हरिसेवारतः शुद्धो योगसिद्धो व्रती सति । तपस्वी ब्रह्मचारी च न याति नरकं ध्रुवम्
Description of the results of various actions. Dharmaraja said: One who is devoted to serving Hari, pure, accomplished in yoga, steadfast in vows, ascetic, and celibate, certainly does not go to hell.
कटुवाचा बान्धवांश्च बललेपेन यो नरः । दग्धान्करोति बलवान् वह्निकुण्डं प्रयाति सः
A man who, with harsh speech and by force, burns his relatives, being powerful, goes to the fiery kunda.
स्वगात्रलोममानाब्दं तत्र स्थित्वा हुताशने । पशुयोनिमवाप्नोति रौद्रदग्धां त्रिजन्मनि
Having remained there for a year, equal to the measure of his own body hair, in the fire; he attains an animal birth, fierce and burned, for three lifetimes.
ब्राह्मणं तृषितं तप्तं क्षुधितं गृहमागतम् । न भोजयति यो मूढस्तप्तकुण्डं प्रयाति सः
A foolish person who does not feed a Brahmin who is thirsty, exhausted, hungry, and has come to his house, goes to the heated kunda.
तत्र तल्लोममानं च वर्षं स्थित्वा च दुःखदे । तप्तस्थले वह्नितल्पे पक्षी च सप्तजन्मसु
There, remaining for a year, equal to the measure of his own body hair, in great suffering; on the heated ground, on a bed of fire, he becomes a bird for seven births.
रविवारे च संक्रान्त्याममायां श्राद्धवासरे । वस्त्राणां क्षारसंयोगं करोति केवलं नरः
On Sundays, at the solstice, at the new moon, or on the day of ancestral rites, if a man mixes alkaline substances with clothes only,
स याति क्षारकुण्डं च सूत्रमानाब्दमेव च । स व्रजेद्रजकीं योनिं सप्तजन्मसु भारते
He goes to the alkaline kunda, for a year equal to the measure of thread; he enters the washerman's birth for seven lifetimes in Bharata.
मूलप्रकृतिनिन्दां यः कुरुते मानवाधमः । वेदनिन्दां शास्त्रनिन्दां पुराणानां तथैव च
The lowest of men who insults the primal nature, who insults the Vedas, the scriptures, and likewise the Puranas,
ब्रह्मविष्णुशिवादीनां तथा निन्दापरो जनः । गौरीवाण्यादिदेवीनां तथा निन्दापरो जनः
And those who are intent on insulting Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and others; and those who are intent on insulting Gauri, Vani, and other goddesses,
ते सर्वे निरये यान्ति तस्मिन्कुण्डे भयानके । नातः परतरं कुण्डं दुःखदं तु भविष्यति
All of them go to the hell, to that terrifying kunda; there will be no kunda more painful than that.
तत्र स्थित्वानेककल्पं सर्पयोनिं व्रजेत्पुनः । देवीनिन्दापराधस्य प्रायश्चित्तं न विद्यते
There, remaining for countless ages, he again attains the serpent birth; for the offense of insulting the goddess, there is no expiation.
स्वदत्तां परदत्तां वा वृत्तिं च सुरविप्रयोः । षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि विट्कुण्डं च प्रयाति सः
Whoever takes for their livelihood what was given by themselves or by another, from the gods or Brahmins, goes to the pit of excrement for sixty thousand years.
तावन्त्येव च वर्षाणि विड्भोजी तत्र तिष्ठति । षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि विट्कृमिश्च पुनर्भुवि
There, for the same number of years, he remains eating excrement; then, for sixty thousand years, he is reborn on earth as a worm in excrement.
परकीयतडागे च तडागं यः करोति च । उत्सजेद्दैवदोषेण मूत्रकुण्डं प्रयाति सः
Whoever constructs a pond in another's pond, or abandons it due to fate, goes to the pit of urine.
तद्रेणुमानवर्षं च तद्भोजी तत्र तिष्ठति । पुनः पूर्णशताब्दं च स वृषो भारते भवेत्
There, for as many years as the dust of that pond, he remains eating that; then, for a full hundred years, he becomes a bull in India.
एकाकी मिष्टमश्नाति श्लेष्मकुण्डं प्रयाति च । पूर्णमब्दशतं चैव तद्भोजी तत्र तिष्ठति
Whoever eats delicious food alone goes to the pit of phlegm, and there remains eating that for a full hundred years.
ततः पूर्णशताब्दं च स प्रेतो भारते भवेत् । श्लेष्ममूत्रपरं चैव पूयं भुङ्क्ते ततः शुचिः
After that, for a full hundred years, he becomes a ghost in India, and then, eating phlegm, urine, and pus, he is purified.
पितरं मातरं चैव गुरुं भार्यां सुतं सुताम् । यो न पुष्णात्यनाथं च गरकुण्डं प्रयाति सः
Whoever does not support his father, mother, teacher, wife, son, daughter, or one who is helpless, goes to the pit of poison.
पूर्णमब्दशतं चैव तद्भोजी तत्र तिष्ठति । ततो व्रजेद्भूतयोनिं शतवर्षं ततः शुचिः
There, for a full hundred years, he remains eating that; then, he enters a ghostly birth for a hundred years, and after that, he is purified.
दृष्ट्वातिथिं वक्रचक्षुः करोति यो हि मानवः । पितृदेवास्तस्य जलं न गृह्णन्ति च पापिनः
If a man looks with a crooked eye upon a guest, the ancestors and gods do not accept water from that sinner.
यानि कानि च पापानि ब्रह्महत्यादिकानि च । इहैव लभते चान्ते दूषिकाकुण्डमाव्रजेत्
Whatever sins there are, including the killing of a Brahmin, he experiences them here itself, and in the end, he enters the pit of filth.
पूर्णमब्दशतं चैव तद्भोजी तत्र तिष्ठति । ततो व्रजेद्भूतयोनिं शतवर्षं ततः शुचिः
There, for a full hundred years, he remains eating that; then, he enters a ghostly birth for a hundred years, and after that, he is purified.
दत्त्वा द्रव्यं च विप्राय चान्यस्मै दीयते यदि । स तिष्ठति वसाकुण्डे तद्भोजी शतवत्सरम्
If, after giving wealth to a Brahmin, it is given to someone else, he remains in the pit of fat, eating that for a hundred years.
कृकलासो भवेत्सोऽपि भारते सप्तजन्मसु । ततो भवेन्महारौद्रो दरिद्रोऽल्पायुरेव च
He then becomes a vulture in India for seven births; after that, he becomes extremely fierce, poor, and short-lived.
पुमांसं कामिनी वापि कामिनीं वा पुमानथ । यः शुक्रं पाययत्येव शुक्रकुण्डं प्रयाति सः
A man or woman who makes another drink semen, or drinks it themselves, goes to the pit of semen.