Verse 7

⁷Some count the hells as twenty-one. Now, king, I shall run through them for you by name and form and mark: Tamisra, Andhatamisra, Raurava, Maharaurava, Kumbhipaka, Kalasutra, Asipatravana, Sukaramukha, Andhakupa, Krmibhojana, Sandamsa, Taptasurmi, Vajrakantakasalmali, Vaitarani, Puyoda, Pranarodha, Visasana, Lalabhaksa, Sarameyadana, Avici, Ayahpana; and further Ksarakardama, Raksoganabhojana, Sulaprota, Dandasuka, Avatanirodhana, Paryavartana, Sucimukha. Twenty-eight hells, grounds of torment of many kinds. ⁸One who carries off another man's wealth, children or wife is bound with the cord of time and thrown down by force into the hell Tamisra by Yama's men, who are very terrible. Tormented with no food and no water, with beatings and threats and the rest, the creature there is brought to such distress that at times he faints outright, in that place which is mostly darkness.

⁹In just this way in Andhatamisra: one who cheats a man and takes his wife and his goods. Thrown down there and held in torment, the embodied one loses his mind and loses his sight from the pain, as a tree does whose root is being cut away. So they call that hell Andhatamisra, the blinding dark. ¹⁰One who here, harming other beings, fattens only his own household day after day, saying this is I and this is mine, leaves all that behind and falls by his own foul work into Raurava. ¹¹The creatures he harmed here become rurus in the other place, when he has come to Yama's torment, and harm him in the same way. So they call it Raurava. Ruru is the name of a beast crueller than a snake.

¹²So too Maharaurava. The man thrown down there, who lived only to fill his own belly, is killed for his flesh by the rurus called flesh-eaters.