Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) / Canto 5: The Creative Impetus / CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX / The Twenty-sixth Chapter describes how a sinful man goes to different hells, where he is punished in various ways by the assistants of Yamarāja. As stated in the Bhagavad-gītā (3.27):