Judgement realms · THE COSMIC ATLAS
Yamalokaयमलोक
Yama’s domain of justice and the assessment of deeds; the court is distinct from any one punitive Naraka.
All realmsQuiet threshold · reflection and consequenceExisting devotional artwork · illustrative visual context
STORY & TRADITION
The world of Yamaloka.
Yama’s domain of justice and the assessment of deeds; the court is distinct from any one punitive Naraka.
Realms & Cosmic Worlds
Details & context.
- Tradition dependence
- High — cosmological systems and supreme-abode theologies differ.
- Realm category
- Judgement realms
- Cosmological position
- Judgement realms
- Ruler / presiding association
- Yama
- Inhabitants & associated beings
- Yama; Chitragupta
- Guardians
- Yama’s messengers, in judgement accounts.
- Environment & landmarks
- Yama’s domain of justice and the assessment of deeds; the court is distinct from any one punitive Naraka.
- Atmosphere
- A restrained reading of the text’s moral imagery; no Western hell imagery.
- Access / routes
- Related realms below are conceptual reading paths, not physical travel routes.
- Earthly association
- No physical geographical equivalence asserted.
- Important stories
- Not established in the cited passage; no additional claim is made here.
- Tradition notes
- Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
FOLLOW THE THREADS
Connected worlds.
5 connected profiles. Every path leads to an original record.
Realms & Cosmic Worlds3
Image credit.
The Cosmic Ocean Reveals Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, style of Sajnu, Mandi, 1835. Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, San Diego Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Original source · Public domain / PD-ArtResized and converted to WebP.
READ THE SOURCES
Texts & references.
Garuda Purana Saroddhara — City of justice
Chapter XIV; a later digest, not the complete Garuda Purana.
Puranic · 1911 Wood–Subrahmanyam translation of the Saroddhara digest; do not conflate it with every Garuda Purana recension.Reference overview. Consult the identified text and passage; unestablished fields are explicitly marked.