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## Hell Division Study - Translation
**Santanaksha** is a hell. It inflicts great suffering on beings. In it, the cruel **Parmadhami** Devas, holding axes in their hands, bind the hands and feet of the hellish beings and chop them like wood.
**Commentary:** The term **Santanaksha** refers to a place where beings are chopped with unity. The word **Santanaksha** is used in the sense of possibility. It is possible that this hell called **Santanaksha** causes great suffering to all beings. If this is the case, then what? The sutrakar answers this question by saying that in that hell, the cruel **Parmadhami** Devas, who are merciless and devoid of compassion, come from their abode with axes in their hands and bind the hands and feet of the helpless hellish beings, who have no protector, and chop them like wood.
**Furthermore:**
The **Parmadhami** Devas extract the blood of the hellish beings, heat it in a cauldron, and then throw the hellish beings into that blood, cooking them like live fish. The bodies of these hellish beings are swollen with excrement, and their heads are shattered.
**Commentary:** The **Parmadhami** Devas throw the hellish beings into a cauldron of their own boiling blood. The intestines and other organs of these hellish beings are swollen due to excrement. Their heads are shattered. How are they cooked? The sutrakar says that they are cooked by turning them over. The hellish beings, who are lying on their backs, are turned over, and those who are lying on their stomachs are turned over. The word **"nam"** is used here in the sense of a figure of speech. The hellish beings, who are being cooked in this way, are agitated and toss and turn their bodies, writhing in pain. The **Parmadhami** Devas cook them like live fish in an iron cauldron.