21. A person who indulges in sex indiscriminately—even with animals—is taken after death to the hell known as Vajrakantaka-salmali. In this hell there is a silk-cotton tree full of thorns as... Read more
Chapter Twenty-six A Description of the Hellish Planets 1. King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: My dear sir, why are the living entities put into different material situations? Kind... Read more
Chapter Twenty-five The Glories of Lord Ananta 1. Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said to Maharaja Pariksit: My dear King, approximately 240,000 miles beneath the planet Patala lives another incarnatio... Read more
Chapter Twenty-four The Subterranean Heavenly Planets 1. Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King, some historians, the speakers of the Puranas, say that 10,000 yojanas [80,000 miles] below t... Read more
Chapter Twenty-three The Sisumara Planetary Systems 1. Sukadeva Gosvami continued: My dear King, 1,300,000 yojanas [10,400,000 miles] above the planets of the seven sages is the place that l... Read more
Chapter Twenty-two The Orbits of the Planets 1. King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: My dear lord, you have already affirmed the truth that the supremely powerful sun-god travels ar... Read more
Chapter Twenty-one The Movements of the Sun 1. Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King, I have thus far described the diameter of the universe [fifty crores of yojanas, or four billion miles] an... Read more
21. The sons of Maharaja Ghrtaprstha were named Ama, Madhuruha, Meghaprstha, Sudhama, Bhrajistha, Lohitarna and Vanaspati. In their island there are seven mountains, which indicate the bound... Read more
Chapter Twenty Studying the Structure of the Universe 1. The great sage Sukadeva Gosvami said: Hereafter I shall describe the dimensions, characteristics and forms of the six islands beginni... Read more
Chapter Nineteen A Description of the Island of Jambudvipa 1. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King, in Kimpurusa-varsa the great devotee Hanuman is always engaged with the inhabitants o... Read more
