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## VipakShrut- Ang-11- ShrutSkandh-1, Chapter-6
That Jailer Duryodhan had many wooden hand-cuffs (hastanduk), fetters for feet (padanduk), wooden shackles (had), iron shackles (nigad), and iron chains (shrinkhala). They were stored in stacks (punj) and bunches (nikar).
That Jailer Duryodhan had many stacks (punj) and bunches (nika) of a variety of whips made of bamboo creepers, cane creepers, tamarind creepers,
That Jailer Duryodhan had many stacks (punj) and bunches (nikar) of stone slabs, sticks, clubs or maces, and anchors (kanangar).
That Jailer Duryodhan had many stacks (punj) and bunches (nikar) of ordinary ropes and those made of leather, hessian or other barks, woolen yarn, and cotton yarn.
That Jailer Duryodhan had many stacks (punj) and bunches (nikar) of weapons like swords (asipatra), saw blades (karapatra), razor blades (kshurapatra), and kadambachirapatra (a kind of blade).
That Jailer Duryodhan had many stacks (punj) and bunches (nikar) of iron nails, bamboo-pegs, leather straps, and hooks (allapatt).
That Jailer Duryodhan had many stacks (punj) and bunches (nikar) of needles, rods (meant for hot piercing), and small maces.
That Jailer Duryodhan had many stacks (punj) and bunches (nikar) of small weapons, small knives, axes, small chisels (nail-cutters), and other small tools with edges as sharp as a blade of grass.
That Jailer Duryodhan would get captured, by king's police, different types of criminals including-thieves, adulterers, pick-pockets (granthibhedak), king's enemies, defaulters, killers of children, traitors, gamblers, and villains. He would then torture them many ways as follows:
(1) Making them lie on their back, face upward (urahvamukh), and opening mouths with iron bars, he would force some of them to swallow molten copper, molten zinc, lead, hot and alkaline or acidic water and oil. And some he would force to take bath with these scalding liquids.
(2) Making many of them lie on their back, face upward, he would force some of them swallow urine of horses, elephants,... and so on up to... sheep.
(3) Making many of them lie on their belly, face downward, he would force some of them to vomit with sounds of `chhad-chhad' (like sound of a whiplash), and some he would torment by forcing them swallow their own vomit.
(4) Many of them he would shackle with wooden hand-cuffs, fetters for feet, wooden shackles (hadi), and iron shackles (nigad). Some he would torture by squeezing and twisting. Some he would tie with iron chains.
(5) He would cut off hands of some. He would pierce and slit others with different types of weapons.
(6) He would get some of them beaten with whips made of bamboo creepers,... and so on up to... hemp and other barks.
(7) He would get some lie down on their backs and place heavy stone slabs or wooden logs on their chests. Having done that he would make policemen to heave the weights up and down in order to break the bones of the culprits.
Compiled by - Deepratnasagar
Aagam - 11 - Vipak-Shrut
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