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Dante's depiction of Limbo is influenced by contemporary scholastic teachings on two kinds of Limbo—the Limbo of Infants for the unbaptised and the Limbo of the Patriarchs for the virtuous Jews of the Old Testament; the addition of Islamic, Greek, and Roman historical figures to the poem is an invention of Dante's, which has received ...
If heaven is a state of supernatural happiness and union with God, and Hell is understood as a state of torture and separation from God then, in this view, the Limbo of Infants, although technically part of hell (the outermost part, limbo meaning 'outer edge' or 'hem') is seen as a sort of intermediate state.
The central panel portrays Yama, aided by Chittagupta and Yamadutas, judging the dead.Other panels depict various realms/hells of Naraka. Naraka (Sanskrit: नरक), also called Yamaloka, is the Hindu equivalent of Hell, where sinners are tormented after death. [1]
Sangam (Hindi for "Union") is an Indian film that was in development hell for at least 15 years. It was originally developed under the original title Gharoanda (Hindi for "nest", literally "house of twigs"), but was withheld by company R.K. Films for a couple of reasons.
Naraka (Sanskrit: नरक) is the realm of hell in Indian religions. According to schools of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, Naraka is a place of torment. The word Neraka (modification of Naraka) in Indonesian and Malaysian has also been used to describe the Islamic concept of Hell. [1]
Limbo (DC Comics), a fictional location in the DC Comics; Limbo (Marvel Comics), a fictional dimension in the Marvel Comics universe; First circle of hell or Limbo, a level of hell in the Inferno by Dante Alighieri "Limbo", a poem by Seamus Heaney in Wintering Out "Limbo", an 1897 essay by Vernon Lee; Limbo, a novel by Andy Secombe
The prisoners in hell come to the dreadful place called Santakshana (i.e. cutting), where the cruel punishers tie their hands and feet, and with axes in their hands cut them like wooden planks. And they turn the writhing victims round, and stew them, like living fishes, in an iron caldron filled with their own blood, their limbs covered with ...
Articles relating to Limbo, an afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned.Medieval theologians of Western Europe described the underworld ("hell", "hades", "infernum") as divided into four distinct parts: Hell of the Damned, Purgatory, Limbo of the Fathers or Patriarchs, and Limbo of the Infants.