कुम्भीपाक

{ kumbhīpāka (m) }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

KUMBHĪPĀKA (M)   One of the twentyeight narakas (hells). It is intended for the cruel folk, who kill for food harmless animals and birds. Since such cruel folk are roasted in Kumbhī fire the hell came to be known by this name. Big vessels full of boiling oil are kept there and the servants of Yama push the sinners into them. One who had killed an animal will be kept in the boiling oil for as many years as the number of hairs the animal killed by him had on its body. [Devī Bhāgavata, 8th Skandha] ; also see under Pitṛtīrtha.

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

कुम्भी—पाक  m.  m. the contents of a cooking vessel, [Kauś. 6]

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कुम्भी पाक

a kind of fever, [Bhpr.]
कुम्भी—पाक  m.  m. sg. or pl. a hell in which the wicked are baked like potter's vessels or cooked like the contents of a cooking vessel, [Mn. xii, 76]; [Yājñ. iii, 224]; [MBh. &c.]

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Shabda-Sagara

कुम्भीपाक  m.  ( -कः) A hell.
E. कुम्भी a pot, and पाक what cooks: in which the wicked are baked like potters' vessels.

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