Buddhist Narakas - Statistics

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Years Hint Answer % Correct
2 x10^12 Blister Naraka - Dark, frozen plain surrounded by icy mountains and continually swept by blizzards. Inhabitants of this world arise fully grown and abide lifelong naked and alone, while the cold raises blisters upon their bodies. Arbuda
80%
3.39738624 x10^18 The Uninterrupted Naraka - Beings are roasted in an immense blazing oven with terrible suffering. Avici
80%
1.62 x10^12 The Reviving Naraka - Has ground made of hot iron heated by an immense fire. Beings in this Naraka appear fully grown, already in a state of fear and misery. As soon as the being begins to fear being harmed by others, their fellows appear and attack each other with iron claws and hell guards appear and attack the being with fiery weapons. Sanjiva
80%
8 x10^14 Shivering Naraka - There, beings shiver in the cold, making an aṭ-aṭ-aṭ sound with their mouths. Atata
60%
1.6 x10^16 Lamentation Naraka - There, the beings lament in the cold, going haa, haa in pain Hahava
60%
3.2 x10^17 Chattering Teeth Naraka - Where beings shiver as their teeth chatter, making the sound hu, hu. Huhuva
60%
1.296 x10^13 The Black Thread Naraka - Includes the torments of Sañjīva. In addition, black lines are drawn upon the body, which hell guards use as guides to cut the beings with fiery saws and sharp axes. Kalasutra
60%
2.56 x10^21 Great Lotus Naraka - The entire body cracks into pieces and the internal organs are exposed to the cold, also cracking. Mahapadma
60%
6.63552 x10^15 The Great Screaming Naraka - Similar to Raurava. Punishment here is for people who maintain their own body by hurting others. In this hell, ruru animals known as kravyāda torment them and eat their flesh Maharaurava
60%
1.28 x10^20 Lotus Naraka - has blizzards that crack open frozen skin, leaving one raw and bloody. Padma
60%
8.2944 x10^14 The Screamimg Naraka - Where beings run wildly about, looking for refuge from the burning ground. When they find an apparent shelter, they are locked inside it as it blazes around them, while they scream inside. Raurava
60%
5.308418 x10^16 The Heating Naraka - Where hell guards impale beings on a fiery spear until flames issue from their noses and mouths. Tapana
60%
6.4 x10^18 Blue Lotus Naraka - The intense cold there makes the skin turn blue like the colour of an utpala waterlily. Utpala
60%
4 x10^13 Burst Blister Naraka - Even colder than Arbuda. There, the blisters burst open, leaving the beings' bodies covered with frozen blood and pus. Nirarbuda
40%
4.2467328 x10^17 The Great Heating Naraka - The tortures here are similar to the Tapana Naraka, but the beings are pierced more bloodily with a trident. Pratapana
40%
1.0368 x10^14 The Crushing Naraka - Surrounded by huge masses of rock that smash together and crush the beings to a bloody jelly. When the rocks move apart again, life is restored to the being and the process starts again. Samghata
40%
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