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असिपत्रवन

   { asipatravana }
Script: Devanagari

असिपत्रवन     

Puranic Encyclopaedia  | English  English
ASIPATRAVANA   One of the notorious twentyeight hells. If you destroy forests without purpose you will go to this hell. [Chapter 6, Anuśāsana Parva 2, Viṣṇu Purāṇa] . The [Devī Bhāgavata] describes Asipatravana like this: “Those who forsake their own natural duty and go in for that of others are thrown into this hell; they die by the orderlies of Yama, the King of Death. There they will be whipped by a whip made of thorny herbs and as they run about with pain they will be followed and whipped. Crashing against the big stones there they will fall fainting and the moment they wake up from the faint they will be stabbed again. This will be repeated. [Aṣṭama Skandha, Devī Bhāgavata] .

असिपत्रवन     

A dictionary, Marathi and English | Marathi  English
asipatravana n S A fabled forest where the wicked are tormented with leaves pointed and rigid like swords.

असिपत्रवन     

Shabda-Sagara | Sanskrit  English
असिपत्रवन  n.  (-नं) A hell where the trees have leaves as sharp as swords.
E. असि and पत्र a leaf, वन a wood.
ROOTS:
असि पत्र वन

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