Verse 27

²⁷Those here who are robbers, who set fires and give poison, who plunder villages or caravans, kings or king's soldiers: them too, when they have gone, Yama's messengers, seven hundred and twenty dogs with teeth of adamant, tear at furiously. ²⁸One who here speaks what is not true, in witness, in an exchange of goods, or in a gift, is thrown when he has gone from a mountain top a hundred yojanas high, head downward, into the hell Avici, where there is no hold and the stony ground shines like water. That is Avici, the waveless: his body broken to the size of sesame seeds and still not dying, he is carried up and falls again.

²⁹A brahmin, a kshatriya or a merchant who here drinks the soma, or his wife, or even one under a vow, who drinks liquor through carelessness: when these have been brought to that place, they tread on the chest with a foot and pour into the mouth iron melted with fire. ³⁰And one who here, being himself low, thinks highly of himself and thinks little of a better man, greater in birth, in austerity, in learning, in conduct, in class and stage: he is a dead man already, and when he dies he is thrown head down into the hell Ksarakardama, the salt mud, and there he eats torments without end. ³¹Those men here who sacrifice with the sacrifice of a man, and those women who eat men offered as beasts: these are struck down like animals in Yama's house, and companies of raksasas torment them, and like butchers cut them with an axe and drink their blood and dance and sing in their delight, as the eaters of men do here.

³²Those here who in forest or village draw in the harmless who come to them trusting, and having won their confidence torment them for sport, spitting them alive on stakes and wires and the rest: they too, when they have gone, are spitted themselves on stakes and the like in Yama's torments, struck by hunger and thirst, beaten this way and that by herons and vultures and the rest with their sharp beaks, and they remember their own foulness. ³³Those men here of savage temper who terrify other beings, like biting snakes: they too, when they have gone, fall into the hell called Dandasuka. There, king, biting snakes with five mouths and seven mouths come up and swallow them, as they swallow what lies in holes.