Vaitarna River - Mentions in Scriptures

Mentions in Scriptures

• "One should next proceed to the Vaitarani capable of destroying every sin."
  — Mahabharat, Book 3: Vana Parva: Tirta Yatra Parva: Section LXXXV.
• "O king, by creatures of sinful acts, and the miseries endured by those that fall into the river Vaitarani in the realms of Yama, and the inauspicious wanderings of creatures through diverse wombs, and the character of their residence in the unholy uterus in the midst of blood and water and phlegm and urine and faeces, all of foul smell, and then in bodies that result from the union of blood and the vital seed, of marrow and sinews, ..."
  — Bhishma. Mahabharat, Shanti Parva: Part III. Section CCCII.
• "..The torrent of blood excited fear amongst those who came to see it, as the river Vaitarani on the way to hell (the Lord of Death) is very fearful to the sinners.
  — Devi Bhagawatam, The Third Book, Chapter XV, On the battle between Yudhajit and Virasena.