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SÛTRAKRITÂNGA.
(caldron) Santapani ?, where evildoers suffer for a long time. (6)
They throw the sinners into caldrons and boil them; scalded they rise thence again; devilish crows a feed on them and (so do) other beasts having claws devour them. (7)
There is a place of smokeless fire in the form of a pile 3 where (the sinners) greatly distressed shriek horribly; head downwards they are lacerated and cut into pieces with iron knives. (8)
Tied up and skinned they are devoured by steelnebbed birds; it is the hell called Samgivani, where life is long, and where men of an evil mind are tortured. (9)
The (punishers) pierce them with sharp pikes as people do with a captured pig. Transfixed by a pike the (sinners) shriek horribly; suffering both (bodily and mentally) they feel nothing but pains. (10)
There is a great place always on fire, where fires burn without fuel; there for a long time stay the evildoers shrieking aloud. (11)
Setting on fire large piles, they thrust into them (a sinner) who will cry horribly; as butter thrown in the fire melts, so does the evildoer there. (12)
And there is an always crowded, hot place which one deserves for one's great sins, and which is full of misery. There (the punishers) tie (the sinner's)
? Or, it is (the hell) called Santâpanî. My translation in the text agrees with Silanka's interpretation.
2 Compare Uttaradhyayana XIX, 58, p. 95.
s Samûsiyam nama. This might also be rendered, called Samukkhrita. But the commentators do not take samûsiya for a proper name.
