adhaśśiras

adhaśśiras na0 adhovartti śiraḥ sasya śatvam vā .
avāṅmastake .

Adhaśśiras — the name of a hell: also Adhomukham.

He who receives bad gifts and from forbidden persons, who

lives by astrology and those who do not request for sacrifice

go to it.

Br. IV. 2. 148 & 163; Vā. 101. 147, 161; Vi. II. 6, 4 & 18.

ADHAŚŚIRAS I was a great sage. Śrī Kṛṣṇa is said to

have met the sage on his way to Hastināpura. (M.B.

Udyoga Parva, Chapter 33, Verse 64).

ADHAŚŚIRAS II . There is a reference in Viṣṇu

Purāṇa to a hell called Adhaśśiras. (Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Part

2, Chapter 6).