यस्त्विह वा अगम्यां स्त्रियमगम्यं वा पुरुषं योषिदभिगच्छति तावमुत्र कशया ताडयन्तस्तिग्मया सूर्म्या लोहमय्या पुरुषमालिङ्गयन्ति स्त्रियं च पुरुषरूपया सूर्म्या ॥ २० ॥
yas tv iha va agamyam striyam agamyam va purusam yosid abhigacchati tav amutra kasaya tadayantas tigmaya surmya lohamayya purusam alingayanti striyam ca purusa-rupaya surmya.
- yah
- any person who
- tu
- but
- iha
- in this life
- va
- or
- agamyam
- unsuitable
- striyam
- a woman
- agamyam
- unsuitable
- va
- or
- purusam
- a man
- yosit
- a woman
- abhigacchati
- approaches for sexual intercourse
- tau
- both of them
- amutra
- in the next life
- kasaya
- by whips
- tadayantah
- beating
- tigmaya
- very hot
- surmya
- by an image
- loha-mayya
- made of iron
- purusam
- the man
- alingayanti
- they embrace
- striyam
- the woman
- ca
- also
- purusa-rupaya
- in the form of a man
- surmya
- by an image
A man or woman who indulges in sexual intercourse with an unworthy member of the opposite sex is punished after death by the assistants of Yamaraja in the hell known as Taptasurmi. There such men and women are beaten with whips. The man is forced to embrace a red-hot iron form of a woman, and the woman is forced to embrace a similar form of a man. Such is the punishment for illicit sex.