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## Dasha-Shruta-Skandha Sutra
**The hellish realms are round within, square without, and below are set with sharp blades. They are perpetually dark, devoid of the light of planets, moon, sun, stars, and constellations. Their surfaces are smeared with fat, grease, flesh, blood, pus, and mud. They are foul and reeking, black as fire, rough to the touch, and dreadful. In these hells, the denizens experience torment, and they neither sleep, move, remember, love, endure, nor understand. They experience intense, vast, deep, harsh, bitter, fierce, cruel, difficult, sharp, and unbearable torment, and they wander about, experiencing the pain of hell.**
**Sixth Dasha**
**These hells are round within, square without, and below are set with sharp blades. They are perpetually dark, devoid of the light of planets, moon, sun, stars, and constellations. Their surfaces are smeared with fat, grease, flesh, blood, pus, and mud. They are foul and reeking, black as fire, rough to the touch, and dreadful. In these hells, the denizens experience torment, and they neither sleep, move, remember, love, endure, nor understand. They experience intense, vast, deep, harsh, bitter, fierce, cruel, difficult, sharp, and unbearable torment, and they wander about, experiencing the pain of hell.**
**Word by Word Meaning:**
* **Te:** They
* **Ve:** Are
* **Nara-ga:** Hells
* **Nara-ka:** Hell
* **Sthana:** Place
* **Anto:** Inside
* **Vatta:** Round
* **Bahi:** Outside
* **Chauransa:** Square
* **Ahe:** Below
* **Khurappa:** Sharp blades
* **Santhana:** Structure
* **Santhita:** Set
* **Nitchandhakara:** Perpetual darkness
* **Tamasa:** Darkness
* **Vavagaya:** Devoid
* **Gah:** Planets
* **Chand:** Moon
* **Sur:** Sun
* **Nakkhat:** Stars
* **Jois:** Light
* **Paha:** Constellation
* **Prabha:** Light
* **Med:** Fat
* **Vasa:** Grease
* **Mans:** Flesh
* **Ruhir:** Blood
* **Puy:** Pus
* **Padal:** Group
* **Chikkhall:** Mud
* **Littanu-levana-tala:** Surface smeared
* **Asu-ivisa:** Foul
* **Parma-dubhi-gandha:** Reeking
* **Kaun-agni-vanna-abha:** Black as fire
* **Karkash:** Rough
* **Sparsha:** Touch
* **Asu-bha:** Dreadful
* **Nara-ka:** Hell
* **Vedana:** Torment
* **No:** Neither
* **Chaiv:** Nor
* **Nu:** Do
* **Nara-keshu:** In hells
* **Nair-ayika:** Denizens
* **Nidrayanti:** Sleep
* **Prachalayanti:** Move
* **Smriti:** Remember
* **Rata:** Love
* **Dhriti:** Endure
* **Mati:** Understand
* **Upal-bante:** Experience
* **Te:** They
* **Nu:** Do
* **Tatra:** There
* **Ujjvala:** Intense
* **Vipula:** Vast
* **Praga-dha:** Deep
* **Karkash:** Harsh
* **Katuk:** Bitter
* **Chanda:** Fierce
* **Rudra:** Cruel
* **Durga:** Difficult
* **Tikshna:** Sharp
* **Tivra:** Unbearable
* **Dura-dhisa-hya:** Intolerable
* **Nara-keshu:** In hells
* **Nair-ayika:** Denizens
* **Nara-ka:** Hell
* **Vedana:** Torment
* **Pratyanubhavanto:** Experiencing
* **Viharanti:** Wander about