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Of the different hells, or divisions of Naraka, below Patala; the crimes punished in them respectively; efficacy of expiation; meditation on Vishnu the most effective expiation - Verse 16

Vishnu Purana (GRETIL; M. M. Pathak critical edition) · 2 · Verse 6.16

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Sanskrit Original

पितृदेवातिथीन यस तु पर्यश्नाति नराधमः लालाभक्षे स यात्य उग्रे शरकर्ता च वेधके ।।

pitṛdevātithīn yas tu paryaśnāti narādhamaḥ lālābhakṣe sa yāty ugre śarakartā ca vedhake ||

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He who neglects the deities, ancestors, and guests, is a lowly man; he who eats the leaves goes to the fierce, and the arrow-maker and the piercer.