Shanti Parva 280.40
Rahular Itihasa / M. N. Dutt · Shanti Parva Chapter 280 · Verse 40
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Sanskrit Original
हारिद्रवर्णस्तु प्रजाविसर्गात् सहस्रशस्तिष्ठति संचरन् वै। अविप्रमुक्तो निरये च दैत्य ततः सहस्राणि दशापराणि॥ गतीः सहस्राणि च पञ्च तस्य चत्वारि संवर्तकृतानि चैवा विमुक्तमेनं निरयाच्च विद्धि सर्वेषु चान्येषु च सम्भवेषु॥
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Having acquired the Yellow colour, Individual Soul exists for thousands of Kalpas, sporting as a Deity. Without, however, being emancipated, he has to live in hell, enjoying or enduring the fruits of his acts of past Kalpas and passing through nine and then thousand courses. Know that Individual Soul then becomes freed from the hell as represented heaven. Similarly Individual Soul escapes other births.