The news of Nachiketa’s return spread far and wide and many sages assembled at Uddalaka’s hermitage to share in the wonderful knowledge that Nachiketa had gained. After imparting to the world what he had directly learnt from Yama, Nachiketa went back to his own meditations.

The boar revealed to the earth what Nachiketa had learnt and satisfied her curiosity about Yama and his abode.

After death, it is to Yama that people go. The first river that they have to cross on their journey there is called Pushpodaka. Its water is golden and it has golden sand banks. The second river to be crossed, the longest in that region is the clear watered Vaivasvati.

Tall buildings and well-constructed houses mark Yamapuri (Yama’s city). The city has a beautiful hall where the learned meet. But Yama’s city also contains demons and other terrible creatures. Towards the west of the city is a gate which it is agony to pass. It is through this gate that the evil and the wicked enter Yama’s city. Towards the south of the city are the torture chambers for the sinners.

Yama’s attendants (yamadutas) take the sinners to the hells (narakas) where they are to be tortured and punished. They are kicked and beaten and boiled in cauldrons of hot oil. They are then cast into flaming fire. In yama’s city there is a sharp shalmali tree with sharp leaves. On these leaves, sinners are impaled. One of Yama’s attendants named Kushmanda, feeds on the flesh of the sinners as they are impaled on the tree. The bones are then thrown to wild animals to finish off.

Then there are some metal statues of women. These are made fiery hot and sinners who have been disrespectful towards women are made to embrace these statues. There is also a forest full of poisonous grass in which sinners are let loose. There they are stung by venomous insects.