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The Tenth Chapter
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This is the river named Vaitarani, which is full of scorching heat. Even remembering it is terrifying, let alone crossing it. || 8 || These are the abodes of the hellish beings, burning with intense heat within. Like blind mice, the hellish beings are turned around and around. || 8 || The unbearable pains, the severe blows, these are difficult to bear. The lives are cut short, and the hellish beings cannot be stopped. || 82 || Where shall we go? Where shall we stand? Where shall we sit? Where shall we sleep? Wherever we go, there is more and more suffering. || 83 || This endless suffering, when will we cross it? Even the oceans are not a comparison to the length of our lives. || 84 || Let them contemplate this, the constant mental torment that they endure. It is this alone that is capable of causing doubt in their lives, that is, it makes them doubt whether they will die. || 85 || What is the point of saying more? Whatever terrible suffering there is in the world, all of it has been gathered together in the hells by the difficult-to-remove karmas. || 86 || Even the blink of an eye is not a moment of happiness for them. They experience only suffering, day and night. || 87 || Immersed in the ocean of hell, filled with hundreds of different kinds of suffering, they are far from attaining happiness, even remembering it is a distant thought. || 88 || The suffering that they experience in the cold and hot hells is completely unbearable and inconceivable. There is nothing in the world that can be compared to it. || 89 || In the first four earths, there is hot pain. In the fifth earth, there is both hot and cold pain, that is, in the upper two hundred thousand hells, there is hot pain, and in the lower one hundred thousand hells, there is cold pain. In the sixth and seventh earths, there is cold pain. This hot and cold pain increases gradually in the lower hells. || 90 || In those seven earths, there are thirty lakh, twenty-five lakh, fifteen lakh, ten lakh, three lakh,
1. Filled with the oil of the Bhallataka tree. 2. These are the A, 10, 60, S. 3. 'Aas upaveshane'. 4. 'Shing swapne'. 5. Detailed. 6. Doubt. 7. Very far. 8. Equal to L.