Motif
fiery purgatory torment
fiery_purgatory_torment
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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buddhist
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The Questions of King Milinda, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 35) Book III. Chapter 6. / Book III. Chapter 7. / BOOK IV. / Book IV. Chapter 2.; lines 11854-12001 confidence: medium
The king cites the sayings that all tremble at punishment and fear death and that the Arahat has passed beyond all fear, then asks about Arahats and beings in purgatory who are burnt, boiled, scorched, and tormented.
The king’s question describes beings in purgatory being burnt, boiled, scorched, and tormented in a fiery pit or place of woe.
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