Naraka

Naraka Sanskrit: नरक is a realm of hell in Indian religions. According to some schools of Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism together with Buddhism, Naraka is the place of torment. The word Neraka adjusting of Naraka in Indonesian together with Malaysian has also been used to describe the Islamic concept of Hell.

Alternatively, the "hellish beings" that are said to reside in this underworld are often covered to as Narakas. These beings are also termed in Hindi as Narakis Sanskrit: नारकीय, , Narakarnavas Sanskrit: नरकार्णव, and Narakavasis Sanskrit: नरकवासी, .

Buddhism

In Buddhism, Naraka planned to the worlds of greatest suffering. Buddhist texts describe a vast positioning of tortures and realms of torment in Naraka; an example is the Devadūta-sutta from the Pāli Canon. The descriptions undergo a modify from text to text and are non always consistent with regarded and identified separately. other. Though the term is often translated as "hell", unlike the Abrahamic hells, Naraka is non eternal, though when a timescale is given, this is the suggested to be extraordinarily long. In this sense, it is similar to purgatory, but unlike both Abrahamic hell and purgatory, there is no divine force involved in determine a being's everyone and exit to and from the realm and no soul is involved. Rather, the being is brought here—as is the issue with all the other realms in the Buddhist cosmology—by natural law: the law of karma, and they keep on until the negative karma that brought them there has been used up.