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hells of terrible aspect. There within a múhurta, they develop a body deformed, disgusting and having no bones, sinews, nails or hair. On fully developing their five senses, they experience dreadful and severe pain of many kinds, to wit; to be boiled or cooked in pans and big caldrons, to be baked on baking plates, to be fried in a furnace, to be heated in an iron-pan, to be split, to be torn asunder, to be beaten with hundreds of sticks, to be pierced by the edge of a spike, and so forth.
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4. There in hell, the hell-born sinners, being frightened and terrified by Yama's servants, make cries, .e."Master, brother, father, papa, long-lived one. Leave me. I am dying. I am weak and inflicted with disease. Why are you now so harsh and unkind? Do not strike me. Allow me rest for a moment. Be gracious. Do not be angry. I am greatly tired. Leave my neck. I die oppressed by thirst. Give me water. "
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Saying, Well, then, drink this clean cold water, the hell-keepers take melted lead in vessels and offer it to him (the denizen of hell) in his joined hands. Seeing this, they (hell-born) with their limbs shivering from fear, and with their eyes filled with "Our thirst is drops of tears, pitiably cry out: gone," " and looking into sky, having no protection, refuge, helper, or relative, and being bereft of all kith and kin, they run away like deer stupified with fear. Some of the merciless servants of Yama forcibly take hold of the fleeing hell-born, and opening their mouth with iron-rods, pour down
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