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English Translation (preserving Jain terms):
The Shri Sutrakritanga Sutra
I shall explain. In this context, there is also a variant reading 'dukkadinam', which means that I shall also describe the sinful karmas acquired in the past life, which have resulted in the residence of the wicked souls in the hell realms.
Those few ignorant living beings who, for the sake of protecting their own lives, commit sinful acts like violence against other living beings, fall into the extremely terrifying, intensely agonizing Naraka (hell) realms, enveloped in thick darkness.
Explanation:
These are the ones who have engaged in sinful activities like great attachment, violence against the five senses, and flesh-eating, etc. Being 'balas' (ignorant) with intense passions of attachment and aversion, they are living beings seeking to protect their own lives in this Samsara. They commit 'raudra' (terrible) acts like violence and falsehood. Such sinful individuals, immersed in the arising of intense karmas, fall into the extremely terrifying 'ghorarupe' (horrific) 'tamissandhyare' (enveloped in thick darkness) Naraka, where even with the eyes, one can barely perceive, like an owl in the day. As described in the scriptures - "O Gautama! In the Naraka, how much area can the embodied being perceive with his vision? He can perceive only a limited area, not a vast area." Similarly, the intense, unbearable heat like a heap of glowing charcoal is the 'tivvabhitape' (intense anguish) in that Naraka, where the beings attached to sense pleasures, burdened by their own karmas, fall and experience various torments.