Mahabharata · Chapter 12.196
kīdṛśaṃ nirayaṃ yāti jāpako varṇayasva me /
kautūhalaṃ hi rājanme tadbhavānvaktumarhati //
bhīṣma uvāca /
dharmasyāṃśaprasūto'si dharmajño'si svabhāvataḥ /
dharmamūlāśrayaṃ vākyaṃ śṛṇuṣvāvahito'nagha //
amūni yāni sthānāni devānāmamarātmanām /
nānāsaṃsthānavarṇāni nānārūpaphalāni ca //
divyāni kāmacārīṇi vimānāni sabhāstathā /
ākrīḍā vividhā rājanpadminyaścāmalodakāḥ //
caturṇāṃ lokapālānāṃ śukrasyātha bṛhaspateḥ /
marutāṃ viśvadevānāṃ sādhyānāmaśvinorapi //
rudrādityavasūnāṃ ca tathā'nyeṣāṃ divaukasām /
ete vai nirayāstāta sthānasya paramātmanaḥ //
abhayaṃ cānimittaṃ ca na ca kleśabhayāvṛtam /
dvābhyāṃ muktaṃ tribhirmuktamaṣṭābhistribhireva ca //
caturlakṣaṇavarjaṃ tu catuṣkāraṇavarjitam /
apraharṣamanānandamaśokaṃ vigataklamam //
kālaḥ sampacyate tatra kālastatra na vai prabhuḥ /
sa kālasya prabhū rājansarvasyāpi tatheśvaraḥ //
etadvai brahmaṇaḥ sthāne jāpakasya mahātmanaḥ / tatrasthaṃ paramātmānaṃ dhyāyanvai susamāhitaḥ /
hiraṇyagarbhaḥ sāyujyaṃ prāpnuyādvā nṛpottama //
ātmakevalatāṃ prāptastatra gatvā na śocati /
īdṛśaṃ paramaṃ sthānaṃ nirayāste ca tādṛśāḥ //
ete te nirayāḥ proktāḥ sarva eva yathātatham /
tasya sthānavarasyeha sarve nirayasañjñitāḥ //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0