Eight Cemeteries = realms of Eight Kings of >do^m

• According to Konchog Lhundrub‘s teachings on the Hevajra Tantra, in the east is the “Gruesome” charnel ground (chandograkatasi); in the south “Frightful with Skulls” (bhairavakapalika); in the west “Adorned with a Blazing Garland” (jvalamalalankara); in the north “Dense Jungle” (girigahvaronnati); the north-east “Fiercely Resounding” (ugropanyasa); th south-east “Forest of the Lord” (ishvaravana); the south-west “Dark and Terrible” (bhairavandhakara); and the north-west “Resounding with the Cries Kili Kili” (Kilikilaghoshanadita). “Furthermore, there are headless corpses, hanging corpses, lying corpses, stake-impaled corpses, heads, skeletons, jackals, crows, owls, vultures, and zombies making the sound, “phaim”. There are also siddhas with clear understanding, yaksha, raksha, preta, flesh eaters, lunatics, bhairava, daka, dakini, ponds, fires, stupa, and sadhaka. All of these fill the charnel grounds.”

• A ritual text composed by Chogyal Phagpa based on the Chakrasamvara Tantra lists them as: in the east “Gruesome”; in the south “Terrifying”; in the west “Blazing with [the Sound] Ur Ur”; in the north “Dense Wild Thicket”; the north-east “Wildly Laughing”; the south-east “Marvelous Forest”; the south-west “Interminably Gloomy”; and the north-west “Resounding with the Sound Kili Kili”.

• According to Dudjom Rinpoche in The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: its Fundamentals and History(1991), the names of the Eight Great Charnel Grounds are: “The Most Fierce”; “Dense Thicket”; “Dense Blaze”; “Endowed with Skeletons”; “Cool Forest” or “Cool Grove”; “Black Darkness”; “Resonant with ‘Kilikili’”; “Wild Cries of ‘Ha-ha’”.
  http://jarungkhashor.blogspot.com/2011/01/vultures-and-charnel-grounds-east-and.html

compared wth the names of the cities of the 8 kings of >do^m

{1. Ugra ~ Ka.ta- : because /ugra/ is cognate with /<akran/ (Strong's 5918) "muddler"; and to undo the muddying, /kataka/ is "clearing nut plant (its seeds ... precipitate the earthy particles in the water W.)".}

{2. Thicket = 3. Daimon : because the ram was caught (B-R. 22:13) in a "thicket" (/sbak/) when >ab-ram at first heard his own name called so that he responded (B-R. 22:11 -- alike unto the divine voice heard by S^mu^->el while he was as yet disciple to <eli^, according to 1st S^mu^->el 3:10-11 ); and thereupon heard instructions (B-R. 22:12); quite alike unto the instructive voice of the daimon heard and obeyed by Sokrates.}

comparison of the names of the 8 kings of >do^m with the 8 deities in Codex Borgianus Mexicanus, pp. 75-76

{6. the vignette of the undotted, hath a hill with a water-spring atop it (very unusual!) and "running down the sides" (CB"I&C", p. xxxib) : cf. "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water", where "Jack" is in Old Norse /HJUki/, cognate with Vaidik /CYaVana/, as well as with the /H.IWWi^/ ('Shewer') in the TNaK. Cyavana originated this flow of water from his own eyen, already as a young boy : (PE, s.v. "Agni (11)") "the child weeping profusely all the way and creating a lachrymal river called Vadhu-saras."}

CB"I&C" = Bruce Byland : "Introduction and Commentary". In :- Gisele Di`az & Alan Rodgers : The Codex Borgia. Dover Publ, 1993. pp. xiii-xxxii.

PE = Vettam Mani : Puranic Encyclopaedia. Delhi, 1975. https://archive.org/stream/puranicencyclopa00maniuoft/puranicencyclopa00maniuoft_djvu.txt

[written Dec 20 2014]