Sārameyadana: Naraka

Sārameyadana (सारमेयदन)
Hell of the sons of Sarama

''Those who are addicted to robbery, who put fire to other’s houses, who make others drink poison, those that are treacherous, and who destroy the interest of the villagers and other persons, those kings or the royal personages are taken after their death by the Yamadūtas to the Sārameyādana hell. There seven hundred and twenty dogs, very wonderful to behold, come furiously and with great force and energy, over them and feed on them. O Nārada! This hell is denominated as Sārameyādana Naraka and it is very horrible.''
- Chapter of the Eighth Book on the narrative of the sins leading to hells in the Mahā Purāṇam Śrīmad Devī Bhāgavatam by Maharṣi Veda Vyāsa.

Bhagavata Purana states that Naraka is situated beneath the earth, between the seven realms of the underworld known as Patala and the Garbhodaka Ocean, which is the lowest point of the universe. Naraka (Yamaloka) is the equivalent of Hell in Hindu Dharma where those who have sinned are punished after they die. It is also considered the dwelling place of Yama, the god of Death.
When someone dies, the Yamadutas, messengers of Yama, take all souls to Yama’s court. Yama weighs the person’s virtues and vices and passes a judgment, based on which the virtuous ones are sent to Svarga (heaven) and the sinners to one of the hells.
According to Bhagavata Puran, there 28 different parts or layers of hell, where different punishments are meted out to the sinners according to their acts of sin.
Sārameyadana is one of the twenty-eight hells, where beings brought into are preyed on by seven hundred and twenty ferocious dogs, the sons of Sarama, with razor-sharp teeth. Plunderers who burn houses and poison people for wealth, and kings and other government officials who grab money of merchants, mass murder or ruin the nation, are brought to be punished here.