Varaha Purana

अस्थिपाषाणवर्षाणि रुधिरस्य बलाहकाः

Showers of bones and stones, and clouds of blood—

धावतां प्लवतां चैव हा हतोऽस्मीति भाषिणाम्

Of those running and swimming, crying out, 'Alas, I am slain!'

क्रन्दतां करुणोन्मिश्रं दिशोऽपूर्यन्त सर्वशः 199.

The directions were filled everywhere with their wailing, mixed with lamentation.

क्वचित्स्थूलैस्तथा बद्धः उद्बद्धश्च क्वचित्तथा

Some were bound with thick cords, and others tied up in different ways.

अपश्यं पुनरन्यत्र यत्स्मृत्वा चोद्विजेन्नरः

Elsewhere I saw things which, if remembered, would terrify a man.

इति श्रीवराहपुराणे संसारचक्रे यातनास्वरूप वर्णनं नाम नवनवत्यधिकशततमोऽध्यायः

Thus, in the Śrī Varāha Purāṇa, the one hundred and ninety-ninth chapter named 'Description of the Forms of Torment in the Cycle of Existence.'

पुनः नरकयातनास्वरूपवर्णनम् तप्तं चैव महातप्तं महारौरवरौरवौ

Again, the description of the forms of torment in hell: the heated and the intensely heated, Mahāraurava and Raurava.

अन्धकारश्च नरको अन्धकारवरस्तथा

There is the hell called Andhakāra, and also one even darker than Andhakāra.

प्रथमे प्रथमं विद्याद्द्वितीये द्विगुणं तथा

In the first, know the darkness as single; in the second, it is said to be double.

पञ्चमे तु गुणाः पञ्च षष्ठे षङ्गुणमुच्यते

In the fifth, there are fivefold torments; in the sixth, it is said to be sixfold.

अहोरात्रेण चाध्वानं प्रेता गच्छन्ति तत्पुरम्

In a single day and night, the departed travel the path to that city.

दुःखमेवात्र न सुखं दुःखैर्दुःखं विवर्ध्यते

Here there is only suffering, no happiness; suffering is increased by further suffering.

मुच्यते च मृतस्तत्र मारकास्तत्र दुर्लभाः

There, the dead are released, but the agents of death are rare there.

न सुखं तत्र तस्यास्ति किञ्चिदेवात्र विद्यते

There is no happiness for him there; nothing at all exists here.

आयसैः कण्टकैस्तीक्ष्णैस्तप्तैस्तप्तावृता मही

The ground is covered with sharp, heated iron thorns.

अतीव च बुभुक्षात्र पिपासा चाप्यतीव हि 200.

Here, hunger is extreme, and thirst is also exceedingly great.

पातुकामश्च पानीयं राक्षसैर्नीयते सरः

When one desires to drink water, the demons lead him to a lake.

पातुकामश्च पानीयं सहसा तत्र धावति

Desiring to drink water, he suddenly runs there.

ततः पक्वानि मांसानि राक्षसैः परिणीयते

Then, cooked flesh is brought by the demons.

तत्र चैव ह्रदे नैका मत्स्याः खादन्ति सर्वशः

And there, in that lake, many fish devour everything.

किञ्चिदन्तरमागम्य वेदनार्थाः पतन्ति हि

Coming a little closer, they fall for the sake of experiencing pain.

शिरस्येवोपविष्टस्य प्रस्थितस्य प्रधावतः

Whether sitting, setting out, or running, it is as if upon their very heads.

करीषगर्त्तस्तत्रैव कुम्भीपाकः सुदारुणः

There is also the pit of excrement, and the dreadful Kumbhīpāka hell.

पाटयन्ति सुमार्गेण राक्षसाः करपत्रिकाः

The demons, with their sharp claws, tear apart by a cruel path.

असिपत्रवनं चात्र शृङ्गाटकवनं तथा

Here is also the forest of sword-leaves, and likewise the forest of pointed spikes.

दह्यते छिद्यते चैव विध्यते भिद्यते पथा 200.

He is burned, cut, pierced, and broken along the path.

श्यामाश्च शबलाश्चैव श्वानस्तेऽत्र दुरासदाः

There are black and spotted dogs here, fierce and hard to approach.

कण्टकैः प्रतिकूलैश्च तत्रान्या कूट शाल्मलिः

There also stands the silk-cotton tree, full of thorns and hostile.

यद्दुःखं तस्य दुर्बुद्धेः प्रतिकूलं च तस्य यत्

Whatever suffering and adversity belongs to that wicked-minded one.