एवंविधा नरका यमालये सन्ति शतश: सहस्रशस्तेषु सर्वेषु च सर्व एवाधर्मवर्तिनो ये केचिदिहोदिता अनुदिताश्चावनिपते पर्यायेण विशन्ति तथैव धर्मानुवर्तिन इतरत्र इह तु पुनर्भवे त उभयशेषाभ्यां निविशन्ति ॥ ३७ ॥
evam-vidha naraka yamalaye santi satasah sahasrasas tesu sarvesu ca sarva evadharma-vartino ye kecid ihodita anuditas cavani-pate paryayena visanti tathaiva dharmanuvartina itaratra iha tu punar-bhave ta ubhaya-sesabhyam nivisanti.
- evam-vidhah
- of this sort
- narakah
- the many hells
- yama-alaye
- in the province of Yamaraja
- santi
- are
- satasah
- hundreds
- sahasrasah
- thousands
- tesu
- in those hellish planets
- sarvesu
- all
- ca
- also
- sarve
- all
- eva
- indeed
- adharma-vartinah
- persons not following the Vedic principles or regulative principles
- ye kecit
- whosoever
- iha
- here
- uditah
- mentioned
- anuditah
- not mentioned
- ca
- and
- avani-pate
- O King
- paryayena
- according to the degree of different kinds of sinful activity
- visanti
- they enter
- tatha eva
- similarly
- dharma-anuvartinah
- those who are pious and act according to the regulative principles or Vedic injunctions
- itaratra
- elsewhere
- iha
- on this planet
- tu
- but
- punah-bhave
- into another birth
- te
- all of them
- ubhaya-sesabhyam
- by the remainder of the results of piety or vice
- nivisanti
- they enter
My dear King Pariksit, in the province of Yamaraja there are hundreds and thousands of hellish planes. The impious people I have mentioned—and also those I have not mentioned—must all enter these various planes according to the degree of their impiety. Those who are pious, however, enter other planeary systems, namely the planes of the demigods. Nevertheless, both the pious and impious are again brought to earth after the results of their pious or impious acts are exhausted.