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ISAVASYA UPANISHAD
Vayu Purana
CHAPTERS I to VII deal with Hells.
CHAPTER XIV deals with Heaven
CHAPTER III. An Account of the Torments of Yama
34. There is one big tree there, glowing like a blazing fire. It covers five yojanas and is one yojana in height.
35. Having bound them on the tree by chains, head downwards, they beat them. They, for whom there is no rescuer, cry, burning there.
36. Many sinful ones are hung on that silk-cotton tree, exhausted by hunger and thirst, and beaten by the messengers of Yama. 49. Some of the sinful are cut with saws, like firewood, and others thrown flat on the ground, are chopped into pieces with axes.
50. Some, their bodies half-buried in a pit, are pierced in the head with arrows. Others, fixed in the middle of a machine, are squeezed like sugar-cane.
CHAPTER XIV.
An Account of the City of the King of Justice.
In the middle of the city, is the very resplendent mansion of the king of justice. It is shining with jewels, and splendid like lightning, flame and the sun.
It is certainly two hundred yojanas in extent, and measures fifty yojanas in height.
It is supported by thousands of pillars, decorated with emeralds, ornamented with gold, and is full of palaces and mansions,
Pleasing to the mind with cupolas of the splendour of the autumnal sky; with beautiful crystal stairways and walls beautified with diamonds,
MANTRA FOUR
anejadekam manaso javiyo nainaddeva apnuvanpurvamarsat | taddhavato'nyanatyeti tisthattasminnapo matarisva dadhati || 4 ||
Although fixed in His abode, the one who has no beginning
is swifter than the mind and can overcome all others running.
The powerful gods cannot approach Him.
Although in one place, He supplies even the (rain and wind) life giving spirit to all living.
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