O King, listen as I recount the consequences that befall those who stray from righteousness. There are women who abandon their husbands and take up with another, casting aside their former spouse. Empowered by their newfound freedoms, they indulge themselves for a long time. Yet, in the end, they are made to cling to a pillar for a thousand years. When that time has passed, they must endure every hell for a hundred hundred years, suffering all manner of torments. The man involved in such acts, too, is not spared—he must bear these agonies for five kalpas. In their punishment, heaps of iron spikes, heated from boiling substances, are driven into their ears until they are filled. Thereafter, they are plunged into the hell known as Kumbhīpāka, where, for up to ten million years, they are forced to consume only salt. Others who commit evil deeds suffer in similar ways, O King. Their eyes are pierced with a thousand needles, and dreadful saws are used to cut them apart. Now, hear of the terrible fate awaiting those who are greedy for the food of others. In all the hells, each one dwells for a year, suffering for their transgressions. Listen further, O King, about those who eat the food meant for the gods. Those ever engrossed in sinful enjoyment are constantly cooked in torment. Their punishment continues with bathing in briny water and the consumption of urine and excrement. Those who take pleasure in disturbing others are cast into the river Vaitarani. One who abandons worship is sent to the hell called Raurava, where they are cooked in torments as countless as the stars, the moon, and the planets. Such a soul, along with a thousand generations, suffers in hell for five aeons, and is considered to have committed a thousand acts of brahminicide. A man born from an unnatural or non-human womb, or as an animal, after reaching the pit of fat, must remain there for as many divine years as his sins warrant. O King, even one who brushes his teeth on a fasting day or abandons his duties is deemed a heretic by the wise. Such a person is purified only by passing through hells in succession for a thousand million aeons, enduring a sin equal to brahminicide. For thousands of millions of aeons, they dwell in hell, suffering the fruits of their actions. Listen now to the results of these sins. Those who constantly delight in drinking smoke remain in torment for a year of Brahma, their sin as grave as the killing of a fetus, with consequences exceedingly terrible. Those who eat the remnants of food in water are tormented in boiling hot oil, suffering great agony. Whoever destroys sacred wood or sandalwood incurs the same punishment. Even in this world, the theft of sacred property brings suffering. Hear further, O King, of the fate that awaits one who gives false testimony. In this world, his sons perish, and he himself meets a violent end. Mortals who are excessively lustful or who spread false rumors are sprinkled with caustic brine for sixty thousand years. Afterward, they are cast down by elephants, just as the wind causes a fall. Such, O King, are the dire consequences that await those who forsake the path of righteousness and virtue.