{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/db/bk09ch32.htm","path":"hin/db/bk09ch32.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk09ch32.htm","text":"THE NINTH BOOK\nChapter XXXII\nOn the enumeration of various hells for sinners\n1-28. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana said :-- Then, initiating her with the Great Seed, the \u00c2di Radical Mantra of the Mah\u00e2 S\u2019akti, S\u2019r\u00ee Bhuvanes\u2019var\u00ee in accordance with due rules, the son of S\u00fbrya began to recite the various effects of various Karmas, auspicious and inauspicious. Never do the persons go to hell when they perform good Karmas; it is only the bad works that lead men to hells. The different Pur\u00e2nas narrate various heavens. The J\u00eevas go to those places as the effects of their various good Karmas. The good Karmas do not lead men to hells; but the bad Karmas do lead them veritably to various hideous hells. In different S\u2019\u00e2stras, different hell-pits are ascertained. Different works lead men to different hells. O Child! Those hell-pits are very wide, deep, painful and tormenting, very horrible and ugly. Of these, eighty six pits or Kundas are prominent. Many other Kundas exist. Now listen to the names of the Kundas mentioned in the Vedas. Their names are :-- Vahni Kunda, Tapta Kunda, Ks\u00e2ra Kunda, Bhay\u00e2naka Kunda, Vit Kunda, M\u00fbtra Kunda, S\u2019lesma Kunda, Gara Kunda, D\u00fbsik\u00e2 Kunda, Vas\u00e2 Kunda, S\u2019ukra Kunda, S\u2019onita Kunda, As\u2019r\u00fb Kunda, G\u00e2tramala Kunda, Karnamala Kunda, Majj\u00e2 Kunda, M\u00e2msa Kunda, impassable Nakra Kunda, Loma Kunda, Kes\u2019a Kunda, impassable Asthi Kunda, T\u00e2mra Kunda, the exceedingly hot and painful Lauha Kunda (the pit of molten iron), Charma Kunda, the hot Sur\u00e2 Kunda, sharp Thorny Kunda, Visa Kunda, the hot Taila Kunda, very heavy Astra Kunda, Krimi Kunda, P\u00fbya Kunda, terrible Sarpa\nKunda, Mas\u2019aka Kunda, Dams\u2019a Kunda, dreadful Garala Kunda, Vajra Damstra Vris\u2019chika Kunda, S\u2019ara Kunda, S\u00fbla Kunda, awful Khadga Kunda, Gola Kunda, Nakra Kunda, sorrowful K\u00e2ka Kunda, Manth\u00e2na Kunda, V\u00eeja Kunda, painful Vajra Kunda, hot P\u00e2ts\u2019\u00e2na Kunda, sharp P\u00e2s\u2019\u00e2na Kunda, L\u00e2l\u00e2 Kunda, Mas\u00ee Kunda, Chakra Kunda, Vakra Kunda, very terrible Kurma Kunda, Jv\u00e2l\u00e2 Kunda, Bhasma Kunda, Dagdha Kunda, and others. Besides these, there are the Taptas\u00fbch\u00ee, Asipatra, Ksuradh\u00e2ra, S\u00fbch\u00eemukha, Gokh\u00e2m\u00fbkha, K\u00fbmbh\u00eep\u00e2ka, K\u00e2las\u00fbtra, Matsyoda, Krimi, Kantuka, P\u00e2ms\u2019ubhojya, P\u00e2s\u2019avesta, S\u00fblaprota, Prakampana, Ulk\u00e2makha, Andhak\u00fbpa, Vedhana, T\u00e2dana, J\u00e2larandhra, Dehach\u00fbrna, Dalana, S\u2019osana, Kasa, S\u2019\u00fbrpa, Jv\u00e2l\u00e2m\u00fbkha, Dh\u00fbm\u00e2ndha, N\u00e2gavestana and various others. O Savitri! The Kundas give much pain and torment greatly the sinners; they are under the constant watch of innumerable servants. They hold rods in their hands; some of them have nooses; others hold clubs, S\u2019aktis, awful scimitars; they are fierce fanatics, maddened with vanity. All are filled with Tamogunas, merciless, irresistible, energetic, fearless and tawny-eyed (like copper). Some of them are Yogis; some are Siddhas, they assume various forms. When the sinners are about to die, they see these servants of Yama. But those who do their own duties, who are S\u2019\u00e2ktas, Sauras, or G\u00e2napatyas or those who are virtuous Siddha Yogis, they never see the servants of Yama. Those who are engaged in their own Dharmas, who are possessed of wisdom, who are endowed with knowledge, who are mentally strong, who are untouched by fear, who are endowed with the feelings of the Devas, and those who are real Vaisnavas, they never see these servants of Yama. O Chaste One! Thus I have enumerated to you the Kundas. Now hear who live in the Kundas.\nHere ends the Thirty-second Chapter of the Ninth Book on the enumeration of various hells for sinners in the Mah\u00e2pur\u00e2nam S\u2019r\u00ee Mad Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vy\u00e2sa.","title":"The Devi Bhagavatam: The Ninth Book: Chapter 32","type":"page"}