Karambhavālukā
Karambhavālukā · karambha-vālukā, “the sand like hot gruel”
Karambhavālukā is one of the narakas, the places of suffering ruled by Yama into which those who do pāpa (wrong deeds) are cast after death. The Brahma Purāṇa describes it as a naraka one yojana across, shaped like a well and filled with sizzling embers, thorns and sand. Those who harmed people by deceit wither there for 1,10,300 years, and those who burned others are burned there.
In Vyāsa’s account of the narakas
The munis ask Vyāsa to tell them in full how those who do pāpa (wrong deeds) go along the southern road, the dakshiṇa-mārga. Vyāsa tells them of that dreadful road to Yama’s city, of Yama’s court, where the pāpīs see Yama and Citragupta, and of the Yama-kiṅkaras, Yama’s servants, who punish each offence in the very manner that Vasishṭha and the other maharshis laid down for it. 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.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 215
The naraka and who falls there
Karambhavālukā measures one yojana. It is shaped like a well (kūpākāra) and filled with sizzling embers, thorns and sand. There, for one lakh ten thousand three hundred years (1,10,300 years), those who harmed people by māyopāyas (deceitful means) wither cruelly. Those who burned others are burned there.
Vyāsa names it after Asipatravana, the cage of burning swords for the killer of a friend, and before Kākola, the naraka of worms and filth.
Vyāsa ends the account of the narakas with these words: those who turned away from dharma in mind, speech, body and deed must suffer sorrows in the very dreadful torments of Yama-loka for thousands, lakhs and crores of years.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 215
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 215