Conversation between Narada and Narayana
Parvati said—О lord, what is the result of the deeds of the ungrateful people as prescribed in the Vedic and post-Vedic literature?
Mahesvara said—О dear, a similar question was asked from the sages by the king Suyajna which was replied to the sage Narayana thus.
Narayana said— О lord of the earth, the one who snatches away the livelihood given by himself as well as the one given by others to a Brahmana is considered to be an ungrateful person. You kindly listen to the result of the same. Whatever earth is soaked with the dropping of the tears of such a Brahmana on the ground, he falls into the Sitlapotd hell because of that sin and remains there up to the period equivalent to the number of the particles of dust multiplied by one thousand. He has to consume the burning flames and the boiling urine sleeping on the burning bed of flames. The messengers of Yama torture him beside that.
Thereafter, that great sinner is bom on the earth as an insect of refuse for sixty thousand divine years.
He is then reborn as a Sudra deprived of his land, sons and becomes a pauper, miser and suffering from ailment.
Narada said—The degraded person who shatters his own glory and also of others, is turned as an ungrateful person. 1 am going to tell you the result of the same, you please listen to me.
О king, such a person falls into the andhakupa hell and remains there as long as the life of fourteen Indras. His body is eaten up by insects and vultures daily.
Such a sinner daily consumes boiling and saline water. Thereafter he is reborn as a snake seven times and a crow five times before he is purified.
Devala said— Such of the person as misappropriates the riches of a Brahmana, a teacher and gods; such a sinner is termed as an ungrateful person in the land of Bharata. He falls into the Avatoda hell and remains there as long as the life of fourteen Indras. He is then reborn as a drunkard Stidra and is purified thereafter.
Jaigisavya said—The one who getting deprived of the devotion does not serve well the parents and teacher and speak harsh words to them, is considered to be an ungrateful person; similarly a degraded woman who speaks harsh words to her husband and antagonises him, is also called an ungrateful woman. Both of these types fall into the hell with burning flames and have to suffer there till the sun and the moon last. Thereafter they are bom as leeches seven times before they are purified.
Valmiki said—О king, as the element of becoming a tree is found in all the trees, so ungratefulness is also found in all the sins.
The one who indulges in passions, anger or gives false evidence due to some consideration, leaning towards someone, he is called an ungrateful person.
О king, the one who is responsible for the desecration of noble deeds, is called the ungrateful person, because when all the merits disappear, all will become ungrateful.
О king, in the land of Bharata whosoever gives any false evidence or supports an undesirable person, falls in the sarpa-kunda remaining there up to the age of a thousand Indras.
The snakes always entangle his body and terrifying him they eat him up. Thus living among the snakes, he has to consume the refuse and the urine of the snakes, get tortured by the messengers of Yama.
Thereafter he is born in the land of Bharata seven times as a chameleon and then as a frog; similarly and then is grown as a silk-cotton tree in the forest. He is then bom as a dumb SQdra. Thereafter he is purified.
Astlka said—The one who cohabits with teacher’s spouse earns the sin of cohabiting with his own mother and there is no remedy prescribed to relieve one of the sin of cohabiting with a mother.
О best of the kings, the sin one earns by cohabiting with one’s own mother, the same sin is earned by the Stidra cohabiting with a Brahmana woman.
О king, if a Brahmana woman cohabits with a Stidra, she earns the same type of sin. Now I am going to describe the sin one earns for cohabiting with one’s own daughters, the daughter-in-law, brother’s pregnant wives and sisters whatever has been told to me by Brahma himself.
The great sinners who cohabits with such a woman is deemed to be a dead person while still alive and becomes untouchable like a Candala.
Не forfeits the right to look at the sun besides Salagrama and the sacred water, the leaves of Tulasi and its water of all the Tirthas. He is also deprived of the water with which the feet of the Brahmanas are washed because he always remains under the shadow of the great sin.
He becomes incapable of bowing in reverence to the gods, teachers and the Brahmanas. Thereafter in the land of Bharata the food and water offered by such a person is considered to be like the refuse and the urine by the Brahmanas who do not accept the same; the sacred places start burning with the touch of such a person; a Brahmana, after coming in touch with such a person, should observe fast for seven nights. The earth feels disturbed by his weight and expresses her inability to carry his weight.
Like the person who sells away his own daughter, he gets degraded and by talking to him or eating with him, the people earn sin. There is no doubt about it. Thereafter he is lodged in the Kumbhipaka hell up to the age of a hundred Brahmana.
He has to move about in the waves like the circular potter-wheel. He is burnt with the flames of fire and is tortured by the messengers of Yama.
Thus the great sinner has to suffer immensely body pains. After falling in the Kumbhipaka hell, he has only to consume the refuse. After the expire of the great dissolution and the re-creation of the universe, his position remains unchanged.
For sixty thousand years he has to remain as a germ of the vagina of a wicked woman. Thereafter, he is reborn as a Candala having no wives becoming impatient. For next seven births he is reborn as a human being suffering from leprosy in the family of Candalas. Thereafter he reappears as a tree in a sacred place, as a hungry man for seven births, a snake for seven birth and a person deprived of manhood and wife. For seven times more he becomes a Sudra suffering from leprosy being implant, a blind and a Brahmana suffering from leprosy deprived of manhood. Thus he has to suffer variously in his next seven births before he is finely purified.
The sage said—Thus we have spoken everything according to the Sastras, the sin earned by one by disregarding a guest is similar to the same. Therefore you should bow in reverence to the Brahmana and taking him to your house adore him making great efforts, О lord, thereafter you go to the forest and perform tapas which will relieve you of the curse of the Brahmana and enable you to regain your kingdom. О Parvatl, thus speaking, the sages went back to their respective abodes. Thereafter, the gods and the kings also left the place.
