Uma Samhita

हिन्दी अर्थ

साथ आनन्द प्राप्त करते हैं

English

There'is no doubt that the brahmins who take monetary gifts from an unjust king fall into terrible hells.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकारके अर्थोका साधन है

English

There'is no doubt that the brahmins who take monetary gifts from an unjust king fall into terrible hells.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सौभाग्य एवं रूप प्राप्त होता है

English

The king who confiscates the properties of brahmins unjustly and passes them on to others certainly falls into hell.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीशिवमहापुराणे प्ञम्यामुमासंहितायां तपोमाहात्म्यवर्णन॑ नाम द्वादशो5 ध्याय:

English

There are no living beings who do not go to Yama's abode. The result of the action must of necessity be undergone. Let that be considered.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुननेमात्रसे ही प्राप्त करता है

English

They go on, burnt and scorched by lightning falls and pierced through by heavy showers of arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नामक तेरहवाँ अध्याय पूर्ण हुआ

English

The hands of some are tied behind and they are hit in the belly. Others are completely bound with iron fetters. Still others are nailed in their hands.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गृहनन्तो वै पवित्राणि तारयन्ति स्वमेव तम्॥ २ और दान देनेवाले दोनोंका उद्धार करनेवाले हैं

English

The noses of others arc bored and ropes arc tied through them and they are dragged. Similarly others have their cheeks and lips bored and are dragged by ropes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किंतु सरस्वतीदान सबसे बढ़कर है

English

The tips of the hands and the legs of some arc cut off. The ears, noses and lips of others are cut. The penis and the scrotum of some are cut. A few others have all their limbs and joints cut.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मणि तथा कपिला गाय--ये दस महादान हैं

English

Pushed, pierced and thrust by spears and arrows some run about helplessly here and there shrieking and squealing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हैं--ऐसा मैंने सुना है

English

Those who had not made any charitable gifts in the world feel thirsty along this path and vainly beg for water, feeling hungry they beg for food; oppressed by sun¬ shine they beg for shade and distressed with chillness they request for fire. They vainly beg for happiness. But those who had made charitable gilts in the world have all the food and drink necessary for this journey and go ahead to Yama's abode happily.

हिन्दी अर्थ

होकर परम गतिको प्राप्त करते हैं

English

Having thus traversed the path they finally reach the city of the dead with great hardship. They are then ushered into the presence of Yama by the emissaries after due announcement.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वह सब कुछ तपस्यासे प्राप्त कर लेता है

English

Sin accrues to the fierce robbers ind to those cohabiting with other men's wives. It accrues to the king who indulges in amorous sports with other's women.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परमेश्वर शिवजी प्राप्त नहीं हो सकते हैं

English

If the king does not discriminate between a non¬ thief and a thief and kills the wrong person he is sure to fall in hell.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पापोंसे मुक्त हो जाता है और तर जाता है

English

If people steal even a small quantity of these things they will fall into hell—ghee, oil, food and drink, honey, flesh, wine, toddy, jaggery, sugarcane, vegetables, milk, curds, roots, fruits, grass, firewood, leaves, flowers, medicine, shoes, umbrella, cart, seat, waterpot, copper, tin, lead, weapon, conch, and aquatic products, medicinal con-

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा अन्य लोग भी तपस्यापरायण रहते हैं

English

There are other similar things the stealing of which even in small quantities causes fall into hell.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आनन्द प्राप्त करते हैं

English

At the behest of Yama the sinners go to the world o.f Yama in their bodies, which are dragged by Yama's terrible emissaries and are subjected to grief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चन्द्रमा, नक्षत्र एवं ग्रह प्रकाशित होते हैं

English

For those who regularly observe restraints and disciplined life but who err slightly due to oversight, the preceptor is the chastiser through expiatory rites and not Yama as explained by learned men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तपसैव सुख ऐसा वेदवेत्ताओंने कहा है

English

Hence one should perform expiatory rites for the commission of sins. If the sin is not consumed it will not perish even in hundreds of crores of Kalpas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सौभाग्य॑ चैव तपसा प्राप्यते सर्वदा सुखम्॥ ५१ सर्वदा तपस्यासे ही प्राप्त होते हैं

English

As a result of the four kinds of sins, all living beings go to Yamaloka. They are helpless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बात त्रैलोक्यमें प्रसिद्ध है

English

It shall be known to all living beings whether in the womb, in the process of birth, as children, <outh or middling whether women, man or a eunuch.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रण्वध्ययनमाहात्म्य॑ तपसो5धिकमुत्तमम्॥ ५४ अध्ययनकी महिमाको सुनिये

English

Here the result of the auspicious and the inaus¬ picious actions of all embodied beings is being considered by Gitragupta Vasistha and others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

माहमत््यवर्णण नामक बारहवाँ अध्याय पूर्ण हुआ

English

Men who have performed auspicious rites who are of gentle minds, endowed with the quality of compassion, go to Yama's abode through the gentle entrance at the East.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दोनोंका समान फल होता है

English

Sinners, habitually performing sinful actions and devoid of charitable nature, pass through the terrible path and enter Yama's abode by the southern gate.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सदा पुराणका अध्ययन करना चाहिए

English

It must be known that the multiformed city of Yama'-*®® is situated at a distance of eightysix thousand Yojanas from the Earth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पतनातू त्रायते यस्मात् तस्मात्पात्रमुदाहतम्॥ ५ उसे पात्र कहा गया है

English

To men of auspicious deeds it appears to be very near, but to the sinners who go along the terrible path it is situated far off.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा अश्वमेधयज्ञके फलको प्राप्त करता है

English

Somewhere the cross-roads are full of sharp iron pieces, elsewhere there is a forest-fire; in other places these are hot rocks; in some places snow spreads over it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आगे आनेवाली दस पीढ़ियोंका उद्धार कर देता है

English

Some places are full of fine sand where the persons sink up to the neck; elsewhere it is full of stinking muddy water and some places arc covered with burning balls of dry cowdung.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुराण-ग्रन्थके वाचनसे होते हैं

English

Different places are infested with different terrible beasts of prey such as lions, wolves, tigers and huge pythons or terrible mosquitoes or huge leeches.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भेदनकर ब्रह्मलोकको जाता है

English

Terrible flies, extremely poisonous serpents, herds of elephants in rut mad and mighty, crushing everything under their feet infest the paths.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भोग करता है; इसमें सन्देह नहीं करना चाहिए

English

The persons who go that way are tortured and hara.ssed by big boars digging and butting against the path with their sharp fangs, buffaloes with sharp horns, all sorts of beasts of prey, terrible evil spirits like Dakinis, horrible Raksasas and pernicious diseases.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राप्त करता है

English

They are without any shelter when fierce gusts of wind raising huge columns of dust blow sharply against them or showers of massive stones smother them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथां पौराणिकों शैवीं भक्त्या श्रृण्वन्तु ते सदा ॥ २५ कथा सुननी चाहिए

English

They are scorched and burnt by the showers of burning coal, the falling terrible thunderbolts and meteors.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ही शिवकी कथाका श्रवण करे

English

They cry when heavy showers of dust envelop them. They tremble with fear ever and anon at the terrible rumbling sounds of massive clouds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुनते हैं, उनकी दुर्गति नहीं होती है

English

They are split by the shower of sharp weapons and drenched with acid-currents as they go on.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनोरम फल है, इसमें संशय नहीं है

English

They shrink and wither when oppressed by the rough and chill wind all round.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अजर-अमर हो जाता है

English

All those foolish persons who habitually sin are led through such paths by the terrible emissaries of Yam \ forcefully, in canying out his behests.—the paths that are terrible, devoid of feeding, devoid of basic support, im-

हिन्दी अर्थ

और पुराण-शास्त्रका श्रवण करना चाहिए

English

They are lonely, devoid of friends and relatives. They are dependent on others. They bewail their evil actions. They cry again and again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लिये प्रयत्वपूर्वक पुराणोंको सुनना चाहिए

English

They have by this time become ghosts. They have no cloth on. Their throats, lips and palates are parched. They are frightened of terror. They are hungry and feel a burning sensation all over.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसमें सन्देह नहीं है

English

Some are bound with fetters and forced to keep their legs lifted up. They are dragged again and again by the extraordinarily powerful emissaries of Yama.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सूर्गण हीना इब जीवलोका:॥ ४२ सूर्यके बिना जीवलोक आलोकयुक्त नहीं होता

English

Others with downcast faces are against the chest. They are distressed. They are dragged with a rope fastened to their tresses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इृति श्रीशिवमहापुराणे पशञ्चम्यामुमासंहितायां पुराणमाहात्म्यवर्णन॑ नाम त्रयोदशो5 ध्याय:

English

Men in supine position are dragged along the thorny path or that covered with burning coal, by means of a goad clutching at their foreheads.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सह + तारयन्ति च॥ ९ देना चाहिए, ये आत्माका उद्धार करते हैं

English

A few others are dragged with a noose tied round their necks. They go ahead in distress. Others are dragged by ropes. Their tongues are pierced through by goads.

हिन्दी अर्थ

असिपत्रवनको नहीं देखते हैं

English

Yama tells them—"You are noble souls duly blessed, since you have performed what is ordained in the Vedas. Good deeds that are conducive to divine happiness have been performed by you.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृपणतासे रहित होकर दान करना चाहिए

English

Yama tells them—"You are noble souls duly blessed, since you have performed what is ordained in the Vedas. Good deeds that are conducive to divine happiness have been performed by you.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नरकोंको नहीं देखता

English

Ascend the celestial aerial chariot and go to heaven to enjoy the pleasures in the company of celestial damsels and fulfil your cherished desires.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दानानां तन्ममाख्याहि मानुषाणां हितार्थतः॥ 2९ मनुष्योंक हितके लिये उस दानको आप मुझसे कहें

English

Similarly, the infuriated great lord Gitragupta, the knower of virtuousness, at the behest and instruction of Yamaraja imparts the following advice to the kings who proud of their might had committed many misdeeds and had been brought near him ultimately.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पातालके मूल स्थानमें स्थित हैं

English

The next eight cells are Trikona, Paficakona, Sudirgha, Akhilartida, Sama, Bhimabala, Atyugra and the eighth Diptapraya.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सदानृतं वर्देद्स्तु स नरो याति रौरवम्॥ ७ है

English

Then they are again smeared with glowing acid more unbearable than fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चित्तमें पाप -का संक्रमण भी नहीं होता

English

In the terrible hell Asitalavana they arc cut into pieces. Their limbs are pierced through with needles. They are staked on to heated spearheads.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समुद्र हैं, इन सभीके मध्यमें जम्बूद्वीप स्थित है

English

They are tied tightly with ropes and arc rolled on rocks and harassed. They are cast into deep gloomy wells. They are subjected to bee-bites.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऊँचाईमें सुमेरुपर्वतसे मिले हुए हैं

English

When their bodies are cut, bitten and gnawed by worms in a hundred places, they are hurled into wells of pun¬ gent acid.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और उत्तरमें सुपाश््व नामक पर्वत स्थित हैं

English

In the blazing hell the distressed sinners, shriek and run about here and there scorched by its flames.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ओर फैल जाते हैं

English

People are clubbed and tied together with mouths resting on shoulders and hands brought through the hollow and tied with nooses and ropes to the back. Such bundles of bodies are seen in the Mahajvala undergoing tortures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उसके समान नहीं बताया गया है

English

After enjoying pleasures there, in the end when the merit is exhausted return to this place for reaping the fruit of what little evil you may have committed."

हिन्दी अर्थ

बनकर उस दाताके पास उपस्थित होती है

English

Men who have been virtuous are treated as friends by Yama. They see Yama with a gentle face,

हिन्दी अर्थ

तरहके पापोंको नष्ट करनेवाला है

English

Men who have been guilty of cruelties sec him in a terrible form. His face is terrible with curved fangs. His eyes are cruel with knit eyebrows. The hair on his head stand lifted up. He has a big moustache. His lips arc pouted and they throb. He has eighteen hands* He is furious. He resembles black collyrium. His uplifted hands hold all w'capons. He threatens with punishment. He is seated on a great buffalo. His eyes resemble blazing fire. He wears red garlands and garments. He is as tali as

हिन्दी अर्थ

निस्सन्देह स्वर्गको जाता है

English

He appears ready to swallow even great mountains. He appears to vomit fire. Very near him is Mftyu, whose lustre is like that of black fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नष्ट कर देता है

English

AH of them are heroic and terrible. They have curved snouts. They bear shafts, quivers and bows and weapons of various sorts.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृताकृतं॑ यत्सुकृतं समेतु॥ ३० पुण्यरूप हो जाय

English

The attendants of Yama are innumerable. They arc great heroes. They have complexions like the black collyrium. They appear terrifying with weapons lifted up.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रदान न करे, ऐसा करनेसे उद्धार नहीं होता

English

The sinners see Yama terrific to behold, surround¬ ed by his attendants and they see Citragupta too equally terrible.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हत्वा पापं दिवं तिष्ठेद्यावदिन्द्राश्चतुर्दशश ॥ ३२ कालतक स्वर्गलोकमें वास करता है

English

Yama rebukes and reproaches the sinners. Lord Citragupta enlightens them with statements on virtue.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीशिवमहापुराणे पञ्ञम्यागुमासंहितायां सामान्यदानवर्णन॑ नाम चरर्दशो5 ध्याय:

English

O ye sinners, of evil actions, stealers of other man's riches, outragers of the modesty of other's wives, arrogant by your comeliness and might, why was sin

हिन्दी अर्थ

नामक चोदहवाँ अध्याय पूर्ण हुआ

English

Why do you lament now? You are being tortured by your own actions. Reap the fruits thereof. This is not the fault of anyone else.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकस्मादपि सर्वेषां दानानां तद्ददामि ते॥ २ लेता है, उसे मैं आपसे कहता हूँ, आप सुनिये

English

O ye wicked kings, who had tyrannised over and repressed your subjects, why were misdeeds committed for your rule of a very short duration?

हिन्दी अर्थ

होनेके लिये यह दान अवश्य करना चाहिए

English

O kings, let the fruits be reaped now (of the evil actions) in having punished your subjects unjusticiably due to vour fascination for kingly pleasures. You have misused your might.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवैमुंदे माधवम् ॥ विष्णुपदको प्राप्त करता है

English

I see that might quelled, the might that suppressed the subjects. How will you fare when you too are subjected to the same treatment by the emissaries of Yama?

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसे सुनकर व्यक्ति पापोंसे मुक्त हो जाता है

English

The kings who are treated with these and other similar taunts by Yama bewail their own lot and stand silent.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आप सावधान होकर सुनिये

English

After having proclaimed their evil actions, Yama, Dharmaraja speaks to the messengers thus, for wiping off the sins of those kings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऊँचाई क्रमश: एककी अपेक्षा दुगुनी है

English

O Canda, O Mnhacanda, seize these kings forci¬ bly and purify them giadu;»lly in the fires of hell.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सम्पूर्ण जगत्को धारण करते हैं

English

Then they immediately catch hold of |hc kings by their feet, whirl them with great velocity, throw them up and when they fall they catch them again and dash them against a heated rock. They are thus felled like great trees smitten with the thunderbolt.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सिद्ध, देवता तथा ऋषिगण उनकी पूजा करते हैं

English

Then the man sheds blood through his ears. He is wholly shattered. He becomes unconscious and motionless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एक कुण्डलको धारणकर शोभायमान हैं

English

At the end of the seventh nether-world Tala, there are twentyeight Narakakotis situated in terrible darkness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आदरपूर्वक उनकी पूजा करती हैं

English

The tenth beneath the previous is Cana. Mahacanta is lower still. Candakolahala is another. Pracanda, Gandanayika, Padma, Padmavatl, Bhita, Bhima, Bhlsana- nayika and Vajra arc terrible, very terrible.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उनके पराक्रमका वर्णन कौन करेगा।

English

For each of these cells there are five officers-in charge. Now I shall mention the names of the hells of each of these ceils. Understand them well.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपजातियाँ निवास करती हैं

English

There are cool and hot hells. The first five are the leading hells. The hells are named thus: Sughora $umah3tik:.fAa, Sahjivana, Mahatamas, Viloma, Vilopa

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वर्गसे भी अधिक रमणीय हैं

English

Thus for twentyeight cells there are five officers in charge of each. Raurava and other hells are thus hundred and more. The great zones of hell are forty hundreds. Thus O Vyasa, I have described the hells to you. The enumeration arotincs detachment from the sin. Now listen to the pangs of sinners.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पातालके समान कौन लोक है !

English

In the hellish hres, the sinners are roasted and dried up by diverse tortures till their action is exhausted completely.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रहता है, यहाँ केवल मणियोंके तेज विद्यमान हैं

English

Just as metals are melted in fire to remove their impurities so also sinners are put in hells in order to remove their sins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

४ समयका ज्ञान भी नहीं रहता है

English

The hands are tightly tied and the men are battered. Then they are suspended from the branches of tall trees by the attendants ofYama.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीशिवमहापुराणे पञ्चम्यामुगासंहितायां ब्रह्माण्डकथने पाताललोकवर्णनं॑ नाम पञ्चदशोउ ध्याय:

English

Then they are pushed by the servants till they begin to oscillate a Yojana unconscious by their rapidity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पाताललोकवर्णन नामक पत्रहवाँ अध्याय पूर्ण हुआ

English

Even as they are suspended in mid air, iron hundred Bharas in weight is tied to their feet by the emissaries of Yama.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मत्तो मुनिवरश्रेष्ठ पच्यन्ते यत्र पापिन:॥ ९ दु:ख भोगते हैं

English

Afflicted by such a heavy weight the sinners begin to think about their evil actions and keep quiet and motion¬ less.

हिन्दी अर्थ

“नल आप सावधान होकर सुनिये

English

Then the sinners are beaten with goads of fiery colour and terrible iron rods by the terrible servants of Yama.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ता तप्तकुम्भ नामक नरकमें जाता है

English

Their limbs are cut and smothered, gradually torn and severed and smeared with molten metal. They are then roasted like brinjal in red-hot iron cauldrons. They are then cast into wells full of filth, swarms of worms or in tanks full of putrid fat and blood. They are eaten by worm and crows with beaks strong as iron.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तप्तलोह नामक नरकमें दुःख भोगते हैं

English

Dogs, mosquitoes, wolves and tigers of terrible and hideous faces too devour them. They are roasted like fish over glowing heaps of coal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मूर्ख लालाभक्ष नामक नरकमें जाता है

English

Due to their sinful actions men are pierced through with sharp spears. They are put in oil extracting machines called Cakra and crushed like gingelly seeds and beaten into pulp. They are fried in iron cauldrons red hot in the blazing sunlight.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चलाते हैं, वे कृमि नामक नरकमें जाते हैं

English

They are fried in boiling oil in cauldrons again and again. Their tongues, chests and feet are struck in many ways.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वहिज्वाल नामक नरकमें जाते हैं

English

Here the tortures to the body are very severe. Men thus go from one hell to another and are tortured in all the hells.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नामक नरकमें जाते हैं

English

O vyasa, terrible tortures are inflicted in diverse ways in all the hells by Yama's emissaries. They are grievous and painful to every part of the body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यातना भोगते हुए पड़े रहते हैं

English

Their mouths are filled with the burning coals and again with acid red hot, copper hot clarified butter and oil and they are beaten afterwards.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नीचेकी ओर मुख किये हुए देखते रहते हैं

English

They are filled with faeces and worms and arc forced to embrace the red hot fierce iron-silk cotton tree.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नामस्मरणरूप प्रायश्चित्त सबसे श्रेष्ठ है

English

They are then beaten on the back with heated hammer. Their heads and their limbs are crushed with too blunt tooth-edged strong scissors. They are thus tortured by their own actions. Their flesh is eaten and their blood is drunk by them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्मरण ही सर्वोत्तम प्रायश्चित्त है

English

Those who fed and nurtured only themselves and never made any gift of food or drink are crushed with iron rods like sugarcane.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नरकमें नहीं पड़ता है

English

Tossed about many times their bodies do not perish but are severely pained. They become u.sed to bear the pleasure or pain.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वर्ग सुख तथा समृद्धिके लिये होता है

English

In the hell Nirucchvasa they are forced to stand without breathing, for a long time. In the hell Ucchvasa they are hit and thrashed in a house of sand.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न दुःख देनेवाली है और न सुख देनेवाली

English

In the hell Raurava they arc made to cry and inflicted pain by various tortures. Due to the tortures in the hell, Maharaurava, even great men cry.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ही तत्त्वका बोध कराता है

English

They arc beaten on the faces, feet anus, skull,

हिन्दी अर्थ

पदार्थ नहीं है

English

They are again and again rolled on hot sand. Cast into boiling marsh of creatures they make harsh shrie¬ king sounds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जति श्रीश्िवमहाएुराणे पश्मम्याग॒मासंहितायां ब्रह्माण्डवर्णने नरकोद्वारवर्ण॑ नाम ब्रोडशोउ ध्याय:

English

O sage, in the hell kumbhipaka sinners of ruthless misdeeds are fried in unbearable boiling oil.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वरकोद्धारवर्णन नामक स्रोलहवाँ अध्याय पूर्ण हुआ

English

The sinners are felled and dragged along various torturing places again and again in the hell named Lalabhaka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मण्डलं च भुवः सम्यक् सप्तद्वीपादिसंयुतम्॥ ९ वर्णन करते हुए मुझसे भलीभाँति सुनिये

English

Sinners devoid of merit are beaten by Yama*s servants. They are hurled into the torturous hell Sucimukha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

है-ये सभी द्वीप सात समुद्रोंसे घिरे हुए हैं

English

They are put into iron pots. They breathe hard and slow. They are scorched by great fire, as if by their own sins.