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Kindle  The Garuda Purana, by Ernest Wood and S.V. Subrahmanyam,
[1911], at sacred-texts.com  p. 30   An Account of the Kinds of
Sins which lead to Hell.  1. Garuḍa said: For what sins do they
go on that great Way? Why do they fall into the Vaitaraṇī? Why
do they go to hell? Tell me this, O Keśava.  2. The Blessed Lord
said: 'Those who always delight in wrong deeds, who turn away
from good deeds, go from hell to hell, from misery to misery,
from fear to fear.  3. The righteous go into the city of the
King of Justice by three gateways, but the sinful go into it
only by the road of the southern gate.  4. The Vaitaraṇī River
is only on this very miserable way. I will tell you who the
sinners are who go by it.  p. 31  5-12. Slayers of Brāhmiṇs,
drinkers of intoxicants, slayers of owe, infanticides, murderers
of women, destroyers of the embryo, and those who commit secret
sins,  Those who steal the wealth of the teacher, the property
of the temple or