Definition of "naraka" [naraka]

• In post-Vedic Hind. myth. and in Buddhism, the place of torture for departed evil-doers, represented as consisting of numerous hot and cold hells, which have been variously described. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When the lictors of the naraka saw him, they were about to subject him to their tortures; but he, frightened, begged them to allow him a moment in which to eat his midday meal."
• "The king thereupon followed them, and entered (the naraka), when the bhikshu preached the Law to him, and he believed, and was made free. 5 Forthwith he demolished the naraka, and repented of all the evil which he had formerly done."
• "He forthwith asked his ministers who could make for him a naraka and preside over the punishment of wicked people in it."