Enjoy the pleasures that are rightfully yours; do not go toward the torments reserved for evil deeds. My purpose is to bring liberation to suffering beings. Therefore, I will not depart from this place until these greatly afflicted souls are relieved. If, because of me, many who suffer find happiness, then I shall remain here. Yet, it is indeed necessary to depart from this world; so, O king, prepare to go forth. At that moment, Dharma, accompanied by Indra, addressed the king: “Come, come, O tiger among men; by your actions, O lord, much has already been accomplished. Do not be angry; listen to my words, O mighty one. I shall lead you to heaven, for you have worshipped rightly.” But Nimi replied, “O Dharma, here in hell, thousands are tormented. By your own meritorious deeds, O king, you too must go to heaven.” Nimi asked, “What is this special merit or virtue of mine? Please tell me that auspicious thing.” Dharma answered, “O mighty-armed one, in that most excellent Kāla forest, you performed a deed of such special merit that its measure cannot be known. Let all these inhabitants of hell exhaust the results of their own actions. If, in my presence, their elevation does not arise, then whatever greater good deed there is, let a portion of the merit thus produced be given to these here. By the power of that merit, these first ones will be released from hell.” Then the king of Dharma, together with Indra, spoke to Nimi: “See these inhabitants of hell, now freed from their sinful deeds.” Placing Nimi in a celestial chariot, Hari himself led him to the heavenly world. By the power of that god, those souls too ascended to heaven. Praised by all the hosts of gods, Nimi became known as the one who delivers from hell. Whoever sees, every day, the god who is Lord of Hell—O daughter of the mountain—even the gods rejoice at the sight of that god. On the fourteenth day of the waning fortnight, joined with the yoga of Shiva, when it is Krishna Chaturdashi, a man who worships the Lord of Hell on that day, along with ten thousand generations of his lineage, past and future, is liberated. Whatever sins have been accumulated by deed, mind, or speech are destroyed by this power, O goddess; this is the greatness of the god who destroys sin. By merely seeing him, a person becomes liberated. Long ago, in the Rāthaṃtara kalpa, there was a king named Vīradhanvan. Once, he went into the forest, O beautiful-faced one, in pursuit of deer. There he came to the place where his five virtuous brothers were. Once, those five, seeing some young deer in the forest, each seized one, but the young deer died, and the brothers were greatly distressed. Desiring atonement for this act, they approached Saṃvarta, who was surrounded by his disciples. “O lord,” they said, “five newborn deer have been killed by us.” Saṃvarta replied, “One attains purity when atonement is performed; he who does penance becomes purified, and the sin passes to the giver.” The twice-born, armed with the sword of the Veda and established in the law of righteousness, affirmed this path of purification.