Naraka

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 255 words | Copyright

Naraka (Skt.; Pāli, niraya). In both Hinduism and Buddhism, states of punishment and torment, the equivalent of ‘hell’. In neither case can the torment be ‘everlasting’, since rebirth or reappearance is always continuing.

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