In the radiant light, the trees and worlds are revealed, their forms made visible. Into this domain, fierce messengers arrive, their presence overwhelming and terrifying. Some souls, upon reaching this place, are met by others accompanied by savage dogs, who devour them relentlessly—from the soles of their feet to the crowns of their heads. Still others encounter beings of enormous form, with great fangs and a terrifying appearance. Even when various foods and delicacies are offered to these beings, their dreadful nature remains undiminished. Among the punishments, there appears a woman fashioned from iron arrows, heated in fire, exceedingly frightful to behold. She relentlessly pursues a fleeing man, and as she chases him, she speaks words that pierce his heart: "Your mother’s sister, O wicked-minded one; your maternal uncle’s wife; your father’s sister—the wives of learned Brāhmaṇas and twice-born men—you have violated them." She continues, "Why do you run, shameless one, afflicted by your own vices?" Instructing him thus, she makes him hear these accusations again and again. Among thousands of the wise, such women are born repeatedly to deliver torment. She cries, "Why do you cry out again and again, O wretch, suffering many torments from low-born women? Tenfold, O sinner, I shall drag you again and again. You will not be released by me, O sinner; where do you think you are going, truly deluded one? Wherever you go, O sinner, I will not abandon you, adulterer." Like cowherds with sticks, these tormentors drive him forward again and again. He is devoured by other beasts of prey—by dogs and by crows as well. Before him, a blazing fire appears, like a forest conflagration, with flames leaping on every side. Burned and scorched, the tormented again seek refuge under trees, but there, some are cut, some are burned, and some are killed in every imaginable way. At the entrance to the Asitālavanā, the great chariot-warriors stand guard. They declare, "O you of wicked conduct, destroyers of the bridge of righteousness—" Afflicted constantly by these torments, souls are destined to be born into great misery. Within this realm, birds with iron beaks and exceedingly fierce tigers roam. Many enraged, violent beings devour people without mercy. In the Asitālavanā, O Brāhmaṇas, suffering abounds. Some have their limbs shattered by sword-leaves, others are impaled upon spikes. There are ponds, tanks, lakes, and rivers, all filled with putrid flesh, worms, and filth. Thousands of sinners endure agony in the midst of these horrors. Showers of bones and stones rain down, clouds of blood fill the air. Those running and swimming cry out, "Alas, I am slain!" The directions resound everywhere with their wailing, mingled with lamentation. Some are bound with thick cords, others tied up in various ways. Elsewhere, dreadful sights appear—so terrifying that recalling them would shake a man's spirit. Thus concludes the one hundred and ninety-ninth chapter of the Śrī Varāha Purāṇa, describing the forms of torment in the cycle of existence. Once more, the forms of torment in hell are described: the heated and the intensely heated, Mahāraurava and Raurava. There is the hell called Andhakāra, and another even darker than Andhakāra. In the first, darkness is said to be single; in the second, it is described as double.