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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In post-Vedic Hind. myth. and in Buddhism, the place of torture for departed evil-doers, represented as consisting of numerous hot and cold hells, which have been variously described.
Examples
“When the lictors of the naraka saw him, they were about to subject him to their tortures; but he, frightened, begged them to allow him a moment in which to eat his midday meal.”
“The king thereupon followed them, and entered (the naraka), when the bhikshu preached the Law to him, and he believed, and was made free. 5 Forthwith he demolished the naraka, and repented of all the evil which he had formerly done.”
“He forthwith asked his ministers who could make for him a naraka and preside over the punishment of wicked people in it.”
“The lictors at once went and reported to the king that there was a marvellous occurrence in the naraka, and wished him to go and see it; but the king said, “I formerly made such an agreement that now I dare not go (to the place).””
“The connotation of the Sanskrit word for a hell, naraka, is a joyless state.”
“(Once) when he was making a judicial tour of inspection through Jambudvipa, he saw, between the iron circuit of the two hills, a naraka (3) for the punishment of wicked men.”
“Forthwith he demolished the naraka, and repented of all the evil which he had formerly done.”
“The king thought within himself: -- "(Even) the king of demons is able to make a naraka in which to deal with wicked men; why should not I, who am the lord of men, make a naraka in which to deal with wicked men?”
“It was the Avichi naraka to which she went, the last of the eight hot prisons, where the culprits die, and are born again in uninterrupted succession”
“The lictors at once went and reported to the king that there was a marvellous occurrence in the naraka, and wished him to go and see it; but the king said,”
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