यस्त्विह वै निजवेदपथादनापद्यपगत: पाखण्डं चोपगतस्तमसिपत्रवनं प्रवेश्य कशया प्रहरन्ति तत्र हासावितस्ततो धावमान उभयतोधारैस्तालवनासिपत्रैश्छिद्यमानसर्वाङ्गो हा हतोऽस्मीति परमया वेदनया मूर्च्छित: पदे पदे निपतति स्वधर्महा पाखण्डानुगतं फलं भुङ्क्ते ॥ १५ ॥
yas tv iha vai nija-veda-pathad anapady apagatah pakhandam copagatas tam asi-patravanam pravesya kasaya praharanti tatra hasav itas tato dhavamana ubhayato dharais tala-vanasi-patrais chidyamana-sarvango ha hato ’smiti paramaya vedanaya murcchitah pade pade nipatati sva-dharmaha pakhandanugatam phalam bhunkte.
- yah
- anyone who
- tu
- but
- iha
- in this life
- vai
- indeed
- nija-veda-pathat
- from his own path, recommended by the Vedas
- anapadi
- even without an emergency
- apagatah
- deviated
- pakhandam
- a concocted, atheistic system
- ca
- and
- upagatah
- gone to
- tam
- him
- asi-patravanam
- the hell known as Asi-patravana
- pravesya
- making enter
- kasaya
- with a whip
- praharanti
- they beat
- tatra
- there
- ha
- certainly
- asau
- that
- itah tatah
- here and there
- dhavamanah
- running
- ubhayatah
- on both sides
- dharaih
- by the edges
- tala-vana-asi-patraih
- by the swordlike leaves of palm trees
- chidyamana
- being cut
- sarva-angah
- whose entire body
- ha
- alas
- hatah
- killed
- asmi
- I am
- iti
- thus
- paramaya
- with severe
- vedanaya
- pain
- murcchitah
- fainted
- pade pade
- at every step
- nipatati
- falls down
- sva-dharma-ha
- the killer of his own principles of religion
- pakhanda-anugatam phalam
- the result of accepting an atheistic path
- bhunkte
- he suffers
If a person deviates from the path of the Vedas in the absence of an emergency, the servants of Yamaraja put him into the hell called Asi-patravana, where they beat him with whips. When he runs hither and thither, fleeing from the extreme pain, on all sides he runs into palm trees with leaves like sharpened swords. Thus injured all over his body and fainting at every step, he cries out, Oh, what shall I do now! How shall I be saved This is how one suffers who deviates from the accepted religious principles.