There are twenty-one Narakas: --

1. Tamisra

2. Andha Tamisara

3. Rourava

4. Maharourava

5. Kumbhipaka

6. Kala Sutra

7. Asipatravana

8. Sukara Mukha

9. Andha Kupa

10. Krimi bhajana

11. Sandansa

12. Tapta Surmi

13. Vajra-Kantaka Salmali

14. Vaitarani

15. Puyoda

16. Pranarodha

17. Vaisasana

18. Lalabhaksha

19. Sarameyadana

20. Avichi and

21. Ayahpana.

There are seven other Narakas:

1. Kshara Kardama

2. Rakshogana bhojana

3. Sulaprota

4. Danda Suka

5. Avata-nirodhana

6. Parya vartana and

7. Suchi mukha.

(For details of these Narakas, the reader is referred to the original.

They are more for the exoteric than for the esoteric reader.)

There are hundreds and thousands of such Narakas in the realms of Yama.

The vicious enter them by turns. The meritorious go to Svarga. But the

Karma of men is not exhausted in Svarga or Naraka. For that which

remains unexhausted, they enter life again by re-birth.

(The mention of Pitris and Yama connects the Narakas with the astral

plane.)

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