Naraka’s Connections

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Serves

• Yama

  Yama rules Naraka as judge and lord of the dead, weighing the deeds of souls and assigning them to the appropriate realm of punishment.

Equivalent to

• Diyu(Chinese),Jigoku(Japanese),Naraka(Buddhist)

  Dìyù, Naraka, and Jigoku all descend from the same transmitted concept of a subterranean realm of karmic punishment — originating in Vedic-Puranic cosmology, adopted into Buddhist doctrine, then carried to China via sūtra translations and onward to Japan as Jigoku (地獄).

Associated with

• Chitragupta

  Chitragupta meticulously records the deeds of all living beings, and his accounts determine each soul's fate in Naraka after death.