Somaka's preceptor

King Somaka arrives in the next world and finds his preceptor being cooked in a terrible hell. When he learns the priest suffers for a sacrifice performed on Somaka's behalf, he demands to take his place — and argues with Dharmaraja himself that their deeds are identical and their fates should be shared.

King Somaka, desperate for a hundred sons, performs a sacrifice in which his only son Jantu is offered into the fire. The mothers of Jantu scream and try to pull him back, but the officiating priest drags the boy away and completes the rite — and the mothers, inhaling the smoke, fall down.