Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.26.14

yas tv iha brahma-dhruk sa kālasūtra-samjñake narake ayuta-yojana-parimandale tāmramaye tapta-khale upary-adhastād agny-arkābhyām ati-tapyamāne 'bhiniveśitah kshut-pipāsābhyām ca dahyamānāntar-bahih-śarīra āste śete ceshtate 'vatishthati paridhāvati ca yāvanti paśu-romāni tāvad varsha-sahasrāni

SYNONYMS

yah — anyone who; tu — but; iha — in this life; brahma-dhruk — the killer of a brāhmana; sah — such a person; kālasūtra-samjñake — named Kālasūtra; narake — in the hell; ayuta-yojana-parimandale — having a circumference of eighty thousand miles; tāmra-maye — made of copper; tapta — heated; khale — in a level place; upari-adhastāt — above and beneath; agni — by fire; arkābhyām — and by the sun; ati-tapyamāne — which is being heated; abhiniveśitah — being made to enter; kshut-pipāsābhyām — by hunger and thirst; ca — and; dahyamāna — being burned; antah — internally; bahih — externally; śarīrah — whose body; āste — remains; śete — sometimes lies; ceshtate — sometimes moves his limbs; avatishthati — sometimes stands; paridhāvati — sometimes runs here and there; ca — also; yāvanti — as many; paśu-romāni — hairs on the body of an animal; tāvat — that long; varsha-sahasrāni — thousands of years.

TRANSLATION

The killer of a brāhmana is put into the hell known as Kālasūtra, which has a circumference of eighty thousand miles and which is made entirely of copper. Heated from below by fire and from above by the scorching sun, the copper surface of this planet is extremely hot. Thus the murderer of a brāhmana suffers from being burned both internally and externally. Internally he is burning with hunger and thirst, and externally he is burning from the scorching heat of the sun and the fire beneath the copper surface. Therefore he sometimes lies down, sometimes sits, sometimes stands up and sometimes runs here and there. He must suffer in this way for as many thousands of years as there are hairs on the body of an animal.

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