Verse 19

¹⁹Then two messengers of Yama arrive, terrible, their eyes full of fury. Seeing them, his heart shaking with fright, he lets go his dung and his water. ²⁰They wrap him in a body made for torment, tie his neck fast with their cords, and lead him off down a long road, as the king's men lead a man to punishment. ²¹His heart split open by their threatening, trembling all over, eaten at along the way by dogs, in his misery he remembers the wrong he has done. ²²Caught by hunger and thirst, scorched by the sun and by the wind off forest fires, on a track of burning sand, beaten on the back with a whip, he moves on with no strength left, where there is no shade and no water.

²³Falling here and falling there, worn out, fainting and getting up again, he is taken swiftly by that most evil road to the house of Yama. ²⁴Ninety-nine thousand leagues of road, and he is brought over them in three short hours, or in two, and comes to the torments.