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॥
apaśyatsainikāṃścāsya yamasyānucaraiḥ saha| yamasya puruṣairuprai|rarūpairbhayānakaiḥ|| dadarśa vadhyamānāṃśca kilaśyamānāṃśca dehinaḥ| krośataśca mahānādaṃ tīvraniṣṭanatatparān|| kṛmibhirbhakṣyamāṇāṃśca sārameyaiśca dāruṇaiḥ| śrotrāyāsakarā vāco vadataśca bhayāvahāḥ|| saṃtāryamāṇānvaitaraṇī bahuśaḥ śoṇitodakām| vālukāsu ca taptāsu tapyamānānmuhurmuhuḥ|| asipatravane caiva bhidyamānānadhārmikān| raurave kṣāranadyāṃ ca kṣuradhārāsu caiva hi || pānīyaṃ yācamānāṃśca tṛṣitānkṣudhitānapi| śavabhūtānkṛśāndīnānvivarṇānmuktamūrdhanān || malapaṅkadharāndīnānrukṣāṃśca paridhāvataḥ| dadarśa rāvaṇo mārge śataśo'tha sahasraśaḥ||
English Meaning
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.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)