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Naraka

deity underworld Hindu single tradition · 3

Naraka is the personification of hell. He is the child of Nirṛti and Arita.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-1500 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in later Hindu texts.

Relationships

co occurs with
Mṛṣā, rurus, Mrityu, Bhaya, Mahabhaya, Yama, Yama-dutas
enemy of
Aditi, Krishna, Satyabhama
syncretized with
Diyu
child of
Adharma, Arita, Nirṛti

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (3)
  1. Nirṛti
  2. Aditi
  3. Naraka (Hinduism)

Source passages

“Other texts portray her as the daughter of Adharma and Himsa (violence, the opposite of Ahimsa); she married her brother—Arita (not ṛta) and became the mother of Naraka (personification of the hell)”

#12938 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Aditi is described to possess a pair of earrings, which are stolen from her by the asura named Naraka.”

#30005 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat

“Early texts like the Rigveda do not have a detailed description of Naraka. It is simply a place of evil and a dark bottomless pit. The Atharvaveda describes a realm of darkness, where murderers are confined after death.”

#39500 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5