There he saw Yama's soldiery along with Yama's followers, fierce-forms, grim-visaged and terrific. And he saw corporeal beings undergoing torments and pain, and emitting loud cries and sharp shrieks; preyed on by worms and fell dogs: and uttering words capable of striking pain and terror into the heart (of the hearer): and people swimming in the Vaitarani profusely running blood; and momentarily burning with hot sands; unrighteous wights pierced in a wood of asipatra, (plunged) in Raurava, in the river of borate of soda; and (cut) with razor-edges; asking for drinks; and afflicted with hunger and thirst; converted into corpses, lean, woe-begone, and pallid with hair flowing loosely; having dust and filth (on their bodies), and running about distressfully with dry forms; on the way saw Rāvana by hundreds and by thousands.
अपश्यत्सैनिकांश्चास्य यमस्यानुचरैः सह। यमस्य पुरुषैरुप्रै।ररूपैर्भयानकैः॥ ददर्श वध्यमानांश्च किलश्यमानांश्च देहिनः। क्रोशतश्च महानादं तीव्रनिष्टनतत्परान्॥ कृमिभिर्भक्ष्यमाणांश्च सारमेयैश्च दारुणैः। श्रोत्रायासकरा वाचो वदतश्च भयावहाः॥ संतार्यमाणान्वैतरणी बहुशः शोणितोदकाम्। वालुकासु च तप्तासु तप्यमानान्मुहुर्मुहुः॥ असिपत्रवने चैव भिद्यमानानधार्मिकान्। रौरवे क्षारनद्यां च क्षुरधारासु चैव हि ॥ पानीयं याचमानांश्च तृषितान्क्षुधितानपि। शवभूतान्कृशान्दीनान्विवर्णान्मुक्तमूर्धनान् ॥ मलपङ्कधरान्दीनान्रुक्षांश्च परिधावतः। ददर्श रावणो मार्गे शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः॥