Brahma Sūtra 3.1.15

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अपि च सप्त

api ca sapta

Sūtra translation

Moreover there are seven (hells).

Moreover, the pura;/a-writers record that there are seven hells, Raurava, &c., by name, which serve as abodes of enjoyment of the fruits of evil

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अपि सप्त

api sapta

Sūtra translation

Moreover there are seven.

The Smritis moreover declare that there are seven hells, called Raurava, and so on, to which evil-doers have to go.—But how do they, if

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.1.16 in this text

Sūtra

अपि सप्त

api sapta

Sūtra translation

(The authors of Smritis speak) also of the seven (chief hells), and of their divisions, eternal and temporary).

Thus in the Bharata, “ The temporary hells are said to be Raurava, Maha-raurava, Vanhi, Yaitarani, and Kumbheepaka; and the two eternal hells are

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