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30. Cp. BeFi VII.26 'duḥsthitānāṁ duḥkhitānāṁ āśramaṁ vitaranti ye (and Sadala Miśra, p. 24 'dukhi jan ko pālte haim'). 72. Cp. the description of the paths in BeFi XVII.27f.
mahāniśā tathā meghair andhakāro bhayāvahaḥ // tatra tata sthanam atulaṁ kṛṣṇameghasamaprabham / dṛśyate tatra pāpānāṁ darśanādarśanaṁ kvacit //.
83. The passage in BeFi enumerating the hells is, according to the editor, 'di disperata emendazione'. The series of names given there does not seem to agree with any Puranic or epic text treated by Kirfel in his 'Kosmographie her Inder' (Bonn und Leipzig, 1920). nor is there any agreement between Si and BeFi. Indeed the list of names in our Rājasthānī text seems to be even more arbitrary and unoriginal than in BeFi. The original list can no more be restored.
But there are several classes of names distinct with regard to their origin. Considering, throughtout Si, ( i ) all the names which are distinctly marked as designations of 'narakarā kuḍa' ( = k. ), or of 'naraka' (= n. ), and (ii) all the names which are not distinctly marked as proper names, and part of which can also be taken for appellatives, we may distinguish the following groups:
(A) Samskṛta names ( as known from different texts: cp. Kirfel, 1.1. ), given in their original shapes, or somewhat corrupted or modified by phonology, popular etymology etc., such as:
(a) Distinct Proper Names: 1. Amdhaṭāsa (n.)
2. Abhīca (k.)
3. Kubhi (n.)
4. Kubhīpāka ( k. )
5. Gulapāka (k.) 6. Churīdhāra ( k.)
7. Jamacoli ( k.) 8. Tapata Velu ( k.) 9. Naruchāsa (n.)
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