448
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 26]
pīpāsābhyām —by hunger and thirst;  ca —and;  dahyamāna —being burned;  antaḥ —internally;  bahiḥ —externally;  śarīraḥ —whose body;  āste —remains;  śete —sometimes lies;  ceṣṭate —sometimes moves his limbs;  avatiṣṭhati —sometimes stands;  paridhāvati —sometimes runs here and there;  ca —also;  yāvanti —as many;  paśu-romāṇi —hairs on the body of an animal;  tāvat —that long;  varṣa-sahasrāṇi —thousands of years.
TRANSLATION
The killer of a brāhmaṇa is put into the hell known as Kālasūtra, which has a circumference of eighty thousand miles and which is made entirely of copper. Heated from below by fire and from above by the scorching sun, the copper surface of this planet is extremely hot. Thus the murderer of a brāhmaṇa suffers from being burned both internally and externally. Internally he is burning with hunger and thirst, and externally he is burning from the scorching heat of the sun and the fire beneath the copper surface. Therefore he sometimes lies down, sometimes sits, sometimes stands up and sometimes runs here and there. He must suffer in this way for as many thousands of years as there are hairs on the body of an animal.
TEXT 15
यस्त्वह वै निजवेदपथादनापद्यपगतः पाखण्डं चोपग- तस्तमसिपत्रवनं प्रवेश्य कशया प्रहरन्ति तत्र हासावितस्ततो धावमान उभयतोधारैस्तालवनासिपत्रैश्छिद्यमानसर्वाङ्गो हा हतोऽसीति परमया वेदनया मूर्च्छितः पदे पदे निपतति स्वधर्महापाखण्डानुगतं फलं भुङ्क्तो॥१५॥
yas tv iha vai nija-veda-pathād anāpady apagataḥ pākhaṇḍam copagatas tam asi-patravanam praveśya kaśayā praharanti tatra hāsāv itas tato dhāvamāna ubhayato dhārais tāla-vanāsi-patraiś chidyamāna- sarvāṇgo hā hato 'smīti paramayā vedanayā mūrcchitaḥ pade pade nipatati sva-dharmahā pākhaṇḍānugatam phalam bhuṅkte.