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BOOK I, LECTURE 5, CHAPTER 2.
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atone for them, deprived of all pleasant and lovely objects, bay dwelling in the stinking crowded hell, a scene of pain, which is full of flesh (&c.). (27)
Thus I say.
SECOND CHAPTER. I shall now truly tell you another kind of perpetual suffering, how the sinners who have committed crimes suffer for the deeds they have done in their former lives. (1)
Tying their hands and feet the (punishers) cut open their belly with razors and knives; taking hold of the mangled body of the sinner, they forcibly tear the skin off his back. (2)
They cut off his arms at the armpits ; they force his mouth wide open and scald it; they yoke the sinner to a car and drive him, and growing angry they pierce his back with a goad. (3)
The (sinners) walk over ground burning and glowing like red-hot iron; scorched they shriek horribly, being urged on with arrows 2 and put to a red-hot yoke. (4)
The sinners are driven over slippery ground which is like a road of red-hot iron; in this dreadful place (the ministers of hell) make them go forward like slaves (beating them) with sticks. (5)
Proceeding in this intolerable (hell) they are crushed by rocks tumbling down. There is the
Arussa = ârushya, here and in a siinilar passage (verse 15) the commentators explain it, making him angry, exasperating him.' They have misunderstood rahamsi in the second line, rendering it rahasi; it is of course = rathê.
2.Usu = ishu, explained by aravisêsha ' a kind of awl.'
