राजोवाच नरका नाम भगवन्किं देशविशेषा अथवा बहिस्त्रिलोक्या आहोस्विदन्तराल इति ॥ ४ ॥
rajovaca naraka nama bhagavan kim desa-visesa athava bahis tri-lokya ahosvid antarala iti.
- raja uvaca
- the King said
- narakah
- the hellish regions
- nama
- named
- bhagavan
- O my Lord
- kim
- whether
- desa-visesah
- a particular country
- athava
- or
- bahih
- outside
- tri-lokyah
- the three worlds (the universe)
- ahosvit
- or
- antarale
- in the intermediate spaces within the universe
- iti
- thus.
King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: My dear lord, are the hellish regions outside the universe, within the covering of the universe, or in different places on this planet?