Guḍapāka
Guḍapāka · guḍa-pāka, “the boiling of jaggery”
Guḍapāka is one of the narakas, the realms of torment in the domain of Yama. The Brahma Purāṇa describes it as a pool of boiling jaggery syrup, into which one who caused varṇa-sāṅkarya, the mixing of the varṇas, is thrown.
Among the narakas
The munis ask Vyāsa to tell them in full how those who do pāpa go along the southern road to Yama. Vyāsa tells of that road, of Yama’s court, where Citragupta states the account of each one’s karma, and of Yama’s command to his servants to cast the pāpīs into the fires of naraka for the cleansing of their pāpa. Then he says: “Hear the terrible form of the narakas and their measures,” and names them one by one with the deed that leads to each.
After Krakaca, where those who went with women not to be approached are cut with saws sharp as vajra, comes Guḍapāka: a pool of boiling jaggery syrup. One who caused the mixing of varṇas is thrown into it. After it comes Kshuradhāra, the naraka of sharp knives.
Vyāsa closes the account: those who turned away from dharma in mind, speech, body and deed must suffer in the dreadful torments of Yama-loka for thousands, lakhs and crores of years.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 215
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 215