{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/db/bk09ch33.htm","path":"hin/db/bk09ch33.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk09ch33.htm","text":"THE NINTH BOOK\nChapter XXXIII\nOn the description of the destinies of different sinners in different hells\n1-19. Dharmar\u00e2jan said :-- Those that are in Hari\u2019s service, pure, the Siddhas in Yoga (those that have attained success in Yoga), the performers of Vratas (vows), the chaste, the ascetics, the Brahmach\u00e2ris never go to hells. There is no doubt in this. Those persons that are proud of their strong positions and who use very harsh burning words to their friends, they go to Vahni Kunda and live there for as many years as there are hairs on his body; next they attain animal births for three births and get themselves scorched under the strong heat of the Sun. He goes to the Tapta Kunda hell who does not\nentertain any Br\u00e2hman guest with any eatables who comes to his house hungry and thirsty. He lives there for as many years as there are hairs on his body and he has to sleep on a bed of fire, very tormenting. Then he will have to be born for seven births as birds. If anybody washes any clothing with any salt on Sunday, or on the day of Samkr\u00e2nti (when the Sun enters another sign), or on any new-moon day or on any S\u2019r\u00e2ddha day (when funeral ceremonies are performed), he will have to go to the Ks\u00e2ra Kunda hell where he remains for as many years as there are threads in that clothing and finally he becomes born for seven births as a veritable washerman. The wretch that abuses M\u00fbla Prakriti, the Vedas, the S\u2019\u00e2stras, Pur\u00e2nas, Brahm\u00e2, Visnu, S\u2019iva and the other Devas, Gaur\u00ee, Laksm\u00ee, Sarasvat\u00ee and the other Dev\u00ees, goes to the hell named Bhay\u00e2naka Narakakunda. There is no other hell more tormenting than this. The sinners live here for many Kalpas and ultimately become serpents. There is no sin greater than the abuse of the Dev\u00ee. There is no expiation for it. So one ought never to abuse the Dev\u00ee. If one discontinues the allowances given by oneself or other persons to the Devas or Br\u00e2hmanas, one goes to Visth\u00e2 Kunda and has to eat the faeces there for sixty thousand years and finally to be born in Bh\u00e2rata as worms in faeces the same number of years. If any person without the owner\u2019s permission digs another\u2019s tank dried of water, or makes water in the water of any tank, he goes to M\u00fbtra Kunda and drinks urine for as many years as there are the particles in that tank. Then he becomes born in this Bh\u00e2rata its an ox for one hundred years. If any person eats good things himself without giving any portion thereof to the member of his family, he goes to S\u2019lesma Kunda where he eats phlegm, for full one hundred years. Then he becomes born as Preta (disembodied spirits) in this Bh\u00e2rata for hundred years and drinks phlegm, urine and pus; then he becomes pure. He who does not support his father, mother, spiritual teacher, wife, sons, daughters and the helpless persons, goes to Gara Kunda where he eats poison for full one hundred years. Finally he becomes born and wanders as Bh\u00fbtas (disembodied spirits). Then he becomes pure.\n20-50. He who becomes angry and shrinks his eyes at the sight of a guest who has come to his house offends the Devas or Pitris, who do not accept the water offered to them by that villain. On the contrary, he earns all the sins of Brahmahaty\u00e2 (murder of a Br\u00e2hmin and so forth) and finally goes to D\u00fbsik\u00e2kunda where he remains for one hundred years and eats polluted things. Then wandering as Bh\u00fbtas for one hundred years he becomes purified. If anybody makes a gift of any article to a Br\u00e2hmin and then again gives that article to a different man, he goes to Vas\u00e2 Kunda\nwhere he eats marrows for one hundred years. Then he has to roam about in India for seven births as a Krikal\u00e2sa (lizard) and finally he becomes born as a very poor man with a very short life. If any woman or any man makes another of a different sex eat semen, out of passion, he goes to S\u2019ukra Kunda where he drinks semen for one hundred years. Then he crawls about as worms for one hundred years. And then he gets purified. If anybody beats a Br\u00e2hmana who is a family preceptor and causes his blood to come out, he will have to go to Rakta Kunda where he has to drink blood for one hundred years. Finally he has to roam about for seven births in India as tigers; then he becomes pure by degrees. If anybody mocks and laughs at any devotee of Krisna who sings with rapt consciousness and sheds tears of joy, he will have to go to As\u2019ru Kunda where he drinks tears for one hundred years. Then he has to roam as Ch\u00e2nd\u00e2la for three births and then he becomes pure. He who always cheats his friends, lives for one hundred years in G\u00e2tramala Kunda. Then roaming about for three births as an ass and for three births as a fox concurrently, he becomes purified. Out of vanity, if anybody jests at a deaf person, he goes to Karnamalakunda where he eats for one hundred years the wax of the ear. Next he comes to the earth as a deaf and very poor man for seven births, when at last he gets purified. If anybody commits murder out of greed to support his family, he goes to the hell Majj\u00e2kunda where he eats marrow for one lakh years. Next he becomes a fish for seven births, for seven births he becomes a mosquito, for three births he becomes a boar, for seven births he becomes a cock, deer and other animals concurrently; at last he gets purified. If any stupid person sells the daughter whom he has supported, out of greed for money, he goes to M\u00e2nsakunda and lives there for as many years as there are hairs on her body. The Yama\u2019s servants beat him with their clubs. His head becomes overloaded with the burden of the flesh; and, out of hunger, he licks the blood coming out of his head. Next that sinner comes to Bh\u00e2rata and for sixty years becomes a worm in any daughter\u2019s faeces, for seven births he becomes a hunter; for three births, a boar; for seven births, cock; for seven births, frog; for seven births, leech; and for seven births, crow; when he gets purified. One who shaves on the day of observing vows, fasting and funeral ceremony day, becomes impure and unfit to do any action, and, in the end, he goes to the Nakha Kunda where he receives blows of clubs and eats nails for one hundred Deva years. If anybody worships, out of carelessness, the earthen S\u2019iva phallic symbol with any hairs on it, he goes to the hell Kes\u2019a Kunda where he remains for as many years as there are particles in that hair; then he gets to the yoni (womb) a Y\u00e2van\u00e2n\u00ee (a Mlechcha woman) out of Hara\u2019s wrath. After one hundred\nyears he becomes freed from that and then he becomes a R\u00e2ksasa; there is no doubt in this. He who does not offer Pindas to the Visnup\u00e2da in honour of his Pitris at Gay\u00e2 goes to the hell Asthikunda where he remains for as many years as there are dirts on his body. Then he becomes a man; but for seven births he becomes lame and poor. Then he gets purified. The stupid man who commits outrage and violence on his pregnant wife, resides for one hundred years in the hot T\u00e2mra Kunda (where coppers are in a molten condition). He who takes the food of a childless widow and the same of any woman that has just bathed after menstruation goes for one hundred years to the hot Lauha Kunda (where iron is in a molten condition). For seven births he becomes then a crow and for seven births he becomes born of a washerwoman, full of sores and boils, and poor. Then he gets purified.\n51-61. If one touches the things of the Devas after touching skins or impure hides, one remains in the Charma Kunda for full one hundred years. If any Br\u00e2hmin eats a S\u2019\u00fbdra\u2019s food, requested by him, he lives for one hundred years in the hot Sur\u00e2 Kunda. Then for seven births he performs, the funeral rites for a S\u2019\u00fbdra; at last he becomes pure. If any foul-mouthed person uses always harsh and filthy language to his master, he will have to go to T\u00eeksna Kantaka Kunda where he eats thorns. Besides, the Yama\u2019s servants give severe beatings to him with their clubs. For seven births he will have to become horses when he gets purified. If any man ministers poison to another and so takes away his life, he will have to remain for endless years in Visakunda, where he will have to eat poison. Then he will have to pass for one hundred years as a murderer Bhilla, full of sores and boils, and for seven births he will have to be a leper when at last he gets purified. Being born in this holy land Bh\u00e2ratavarsa, if any man strikes a cow with a rod or any driver does so whether by himself or by his servant, he will have to dwell certainly in the hot Lauha Kunda for four yugas. He will have to pass as many years as a cow as there are hairs on that cow when ultimately he gets purified. If anybody strikes any other body with a red-hot iron dart (Kunta weapon), he will have to dwell in the Kunta Kunda for ayuta years. Then he will have to remain for one birth in a good womb, with a diseased constitution, when ultimately he will be purified.\n62-85. If any Br\u00e2hmin villain eats, out of greed, any flesh (not sacrificed before the goddess) or anything not offered to Hari, he will have to remain in the Krimi Kunda where he eats those things for as many years as there are hairs on his body. Then he will have to pass for three births as Mlechchas when ultimately he becomes born in a Br\u00e2hmin\nfamily. If any Br\u00e2hmin performs the S\u2019r\u00e2dh of a S\u2019\u00fbdra, eats the food pertaining to a S\u2019r\u00e2dh of a S\u2019\u00fbdra or burns the dead body of a S\u2019\u00fbdra, he will have to dwell certainly in P\u00fbya Kunda, where, being beaten by the rod of Yama, he eats the pus, etc., for as many years as there are hairs on his body. Then he becomes reborn in this Bh\u00e2rata as one greatly diseased, poor, deaf and dumb and ultimately he will have to roam for seven births as a S\u2019\u00fbdra. He who kills a black serpent on whose hood there is the lotus mark, lives in Sarpa Kunda for as many years as there are hairs on his body and he is bitten by serpents there and beaten by the servants of Yama and eats the excrescences of snakes and finally becomes born as a serpent. Then he becomes a man shortlived and having the cuticaneous disease and ringworm. And his death also comes out of snake-bite. He who kills mosquitoes and other small fanged-animals, that earn their substance rightly and pass so their lives, goes to Dams\u2019a mas\u2019a Kunda where he is eaten by mosquitoes and other fanged-creatures and lives there without food and crying, weeping, for as many years as the numbers of lives destroyed. Besides the Yama\u2019s servants tie his hands and feet and beat him. Then he becomes born as flies when ultimately he becomes purified. He who beats and chastises any man not fit to be chastised and beaten and as well as a Br\u00e2hmana, goes to Vajra Damstra Kunda, full of worms, and lives there day and night for as many years as there are the number of hairs on the chastised person. When he is bitten by the worms and beaten by Yama\u2019s servants, he cries sometimes, weeps sometimes, and becomes very miserable. Next he is reborn as a crow for seven births when ultimately he gets purified. If any foolish king punishes and gives trouble to his subjects out of greed of money, he goes to Vrischika Kunda where he lives for as many years as there are hairs on the bodies of his subjects. There is no doubt in this. Finally he becomes born in this Bh\u00e2rata as a scorpion; then a man diseased and defective in limbs, when ultimately he becomes freed of his sins. If any Br\u00e2hmin carries or raises weapons, washes the clothes of others who do not perform Sandhy\u00e2s and abandons his devotion to Hari, he lives in Sar\u00e2di Kunda for as many years as there are hairs on his body; he is, then, pierced by arrows. Finally he becomes purified. If any king maddened by his own folly and fault, shuts his subjects in a dark cell and kills them, then he will have to go to a dreadful dark hell filled with worms having fanged teeth and covered with dirt. This hell is named Gola Kunda. He lives there bitten by insects for as many years as there are hairs on the bodies of his subjects. Finally he becomes a slave of those subjects, when he gets purified.\n86-103. If anybody kills the sharks and crocodiles, etc., that rise out of the water spontaneously, he will have to remain, then, in Nakra\nKunda for as many years as there are thorns or edged points on those animals. Then he will have to be born as crocodiles, etc., for some time, when he will be purified. If any man, overpowered with lust, sees another\u2019s wife\u2019s uncovered breast, loins, and face, he will have to remain in K\u00e2ka Kunda for as many years as there are hairs in his own body. Here the crows take out his eyes. Finally for three births he gets himself burned by Fire when he becomes pure. He who steals in India the gold of the Devas and the Br\u00e2hmanas, dwells certainly in Manth\u00e2na Kunda for as many years as there are hairs on his body. My servants give him good beatings, and cudgellings; his eyes are covered by Manth\u00e2na Danda insects (or animals) and he eats their dirty faeces. Then he is reborn as a man but for three births he becomes blind and for seven births he becomes very poor, cruel, and a sinful goldsmith and then he is born a Svarnavanik (Son\u00e2r bene). O Fair One! He who steals in India copper or iron, silver or gold, dwells in V\u00eeja Kunda for as many years as there are hairs on his body. There the V\u00eejas (a kind of insect) cover his eyes and he eats the excrescences of those insects. My messengers torment him. Finally he gets purified. If anybody steals in India any Devat\u00e2 or the articles of a Devat\u00e2, he dwells in Vajra Kunda for as many years as there are hairs on his body. There his body gets burnt up. My messengers torment him and he a cries and weeps and remains without any food. Then he gets purified. If anybody steals the metal gold or silver, cows, or garments of any Deva or a Br\u00e2hmana, certainly he dwells in hot P\u00e2s\u00e2na Kunda for as many years as there are hairs on his body. Next for three births he becomes a tortoise and all sorts of white birds. Finally for three births he becomes a leper and for one birth be becomes a man with white marks on his body. Next for seven births he becomes diseased with a severe colic pain and bad blood and lives short. Then he gets purified. If anybody steals brass or K\u00e2msya properties of any Deva or a Br\u00e2hmana, he will have to remain in the sharp P\u00e2s\u00e2na Kunda for as many years as there are hairs on his body. Next he becomes born in Bh\u00e2rata for seven births as horses; and ultimately his both the testicles get enlarged and he gets diseases in his legs when he gets purified. If anybody verily eats the food of an adulterate woman or lives on her alms, he will have to go to the L\u00e2l\u00e2 Kunda for as many years as there are hairs on his body. My messengers torment him there and he eats the saliva and thus lives miserably. Then he gets eye diseases and colic; when ultimately he gets purified.\n104-126. If any Br\u00e2hmana lives on writing only or on the service of Mlechchas, he lives in Masi Kunda very painfully, eating ink, tormented by My messengers for as many years as there are hairs\non his body. Then he becomes a black animal for three births and for another three births he becomes a black goat. Then he becomes a T\u00e2l tree when he gets purified. If anybody steals a Deva\u2019s or\na Br\u00e2hmana\u2019s grains, or any other good materials, betel, \u00c2san (seat) or bedding, he lives in Ch\u00fbrna Kunda for one hundred years, tormented by My D\u00fbtas (messengers). Next for three births he gets\nhimself born as a goat, cock, and monkey. Finally he becomes born as a man with the heart disease, without any issue, poor, and short lived. When, at last, he gets purified. If anybody steals any Br\u00e2hmin\u2019s property and thereby does chakra p\u00fbj\u00e2 (the famous chakra circle worship in Tantra), or prepares a potter\u2019s wheel or any other wheels, he will have to go to Chakra Kunda and remain there for one hundred years, tormented by My messengers. Then he will be born for three births as an oilman suffering from very severe diseases when he will ultimately be poor, without any issue and diseased. Finally he gets purified. If anybody casts a sinful eye on any Br\u00e2hmana or on cows, he will have to remain in Vakra Kunda for one hundred Yugas. Next for three births he becomes a cat, for three births he becomes a vulture; for three births he becomes a boar; for three births he becomes a peacock; for seven births he becomes a man deformed and defective in limbs, his wife being dead, without any issue. Finally he becomes purified. If any person born in a Br\u00e2hmin family eats the flesh of a tortoise that is prohibited, he lives in K\u00fbrma Kunda, for one hundred years, eaten by tortoises. Then he becomes for three births a tortoise; for three births, a boar; for three births a cat; for three births, a peacock; till at last he gets purified. If anybody steals clarified butter or oil of any Devas or a Br\u00e2hmana he will have to go to Jv\u00e2l\u00e2 Kunda or Bhasma Kunda. That sinner remains in oil for one hundred years and gets soaked through and through. Then for seven births he becomes a fish and a mouse when he gets purified. If anybody, born here in this holy land Bh\u00e2rata steals sweet scented oil of a Deva or of a Br\u00e2hmana, the powdered myrobalan or any other scent, he goes to Dagdha Kunda where he lives, burnt day and night for as many years as there are hairs on his body. For seven births he becomes born emitting a nasty smell, for three births he becomes musk (mriga-n\u00e2bhi); for seven births, as a Manth\u00e2na insect. Then he becomes born as a man. If, out of envy, a powerful man appropriates to his purpose another\u2019s ancestral property by cheating, by using force, he goes to the hot S\u00fbch\u00ee Kunda, being tormented there like a J\u00eeva dropped in the midst of a very hot oil tank, full of boiling oil. His body is, then, being burnt up severely as the\nresult of his own Karma; the wonder being that his body never gets completely destroyed nor reduced to ashes. For seven manvantaras he lives there without any food. My messengers give him good beatings and cudgellings and chastise him; he cries aloud. Next he gets himself born as worms of faeces for sixty thousand years. When he becomes born as a pauper without owning any land. Thus that villain, getting a fresh lease of human birth, begins again to do fresh good acts.\nHere ends the Thirty-third Chapter of the Ninth Book on the description of the destinies of different sinners in different hells in 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 33","type":"page"}