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laughing by the gurgling melted lead into it. Being burnt with it, they scream fearfully and horribly, and groan like pigeons..
Moreover, the angry hell-keepers' orders “ Hold, walk, beat, tear, break, cut, divide, dig up, strike again, strike severely, throw, push, pull. Why don't you speak? Remember your sinful evil deeds, " and so forth produce a great and loud tumult which mixed with echoes is always fearful to the hell-born. There in hell one hears, like the noise of a great city on fire the harsh cries of the hell-born tortured with various tortures, viz., the sword-foresti, the grass-forest, stones discharged from machine, surface covered with pins, acid lake, the Veyarņi3 stream gurgling with melted lead, red-hot+ saud, yoking to cars on a thorny difficult road, and walking and dragging on a path paved with hot iron.
They constantly infliot injury to each other with such like weapons, viz., hammer, musundhi, saw, club, plough, mace, pestle, disc, lance, arrow, spear, stick, whip etc.
Then with their hands and feet crushed, they crying, fleeing, falling, wandering, and burning with remorse, suffer such like pains. After returning from therce (i. e. hell) at the expiry of their period, many go to the abode of lower creatures and there
1. Where sword-like shurp and cutting leaves constantly fall from trees.
2. With blades of grass hard and erect.
3. The Vaitaraņí stream of hell is popularly believed to be full of pus and blood.
4." sa =Skt. Hamar is a red flower, hence Targa rod. hot sand.
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