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In the Harivansh Purana, it is said that those who suffer from intense physical and mental pain, drink the water of the extremely hot and salty Vaitarani river and eat food made of foul-smelling clay, thus enduring unbearable suffering. ||365|| Those who are being roasted in hell, day and night, do not experience even a moment of happiness, not even the blinking of an eye. ||366|| They have extremely inauspicious consequences, becoming eunuchs and having a deformed body. ||368|| Those who are destined to become Tirthankaras in the future, and whose karmas have subsided, are freed from their afflictions by the gods out of devotion, six months before their birth. ||369|| The learned Acharyas have stated that the interval between the birth of hell beings in the first earth is forty-eight ghatikas. ||370|| And in the six lower realms, the interval of separation is, respectively, one week, one fortnight, one month, two months, four months, and six months. ||371|| Those who are deeply attached to falsehood and have many beginnings and attachments, are born as animals and humans in those earths. ||372|| The beings with five senses, who are without consciousness, go to the first earth, the crawling ones to the second, the birds to the third, the snakes to the fourth, the lions to the fifth, the women to the sixth, and the extremely sinful fish and humans to the seventh earth. ||373-374|| A being who has emerged from the seventh earth, if he goes back to the seventh earth immediately, will be born once, a being who has emerged from the sixth earth will be born twice in the sixth earth, a being who has emerged from the fifth earth will be born thrice in the fifth earth, a being who has emerged from the fourth earth will be born four times in the fourth earth, a being who has emerged from the third earth will be born five times in the third earth, a being who has emerged from the second earth will be born six times in the second earth, and a being who has emerged from the first earth will be born seven times in the first earth. ||375-377|| A being who has emerged from the seventh earth, becomes a conscious animal by rule, and having the income of a counted number of years, goes back to hell. ||378|| A being who has emerged from the sixth earth does not attain self-control. And a being who has emerged from the fifth earth can attain self-control, but not liberation. ||379|| A being who has emerged from the fourth earth can attain liberation, but he will definitely not become a Tirthankara. ||380|| A being who has emerged from the third, second, and first earth,