[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Āyuḥparyantasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra) › [ཚེའི་མཐའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo) › [The Limits of Life](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000) › 11 # ཚའ་མཐའ་མད 11 The Limits of Life 11 - **Language:** English ### [11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000.11) , With a hatchet in their mouth, With which they only cut themselves When speaking words of evil. “Those who praise the ones who are to be reproached And those who reproach the ones who are to be praised Accumulate with their mouths that evil, Due to which they cannot find happiness. “This is a small sin: Losing all one’s wealth through gambling. This is a great sin: Getting angry at the Tathāgata.¹¹⁸ “Those who abuse the noble ones, Having thus directed evil words and thoughts against them, Will go to hell for one hundred thousand nirarbudas And thirty-six arbudas.¹¹⁹ “Speaking untruth with a mind intending evil Is what destroys one and hurls one into hell.¹²⁰ A mind that is not tainted by these stains, That is blameless, is steadfast. “Monks, the lifespan of beings inhabiting the great hell Intense Heat¹²¹ is half an eon. Premature death does occur.” Then, at that point, the Bhagavān spoke the following verses: “Having abandoned wholesome actions Through which one is reborn in heaven, And having done harmful actions here, in this world, One is reborn in Intense Heat. “Those who harm good ascetics or brahmins, Or their father or mother, Or any other teacher Will boil in Intense Heat. “Monks, the lifespan of the beings in the great hell Incessant Torture¹²² is one eon. Premature death does occur. This is where the fool Devadatta was reborn with his own body because he split the undivided Saṅgha¹²³ and, with evil intentions, drew the Tathāgata’s blood¹²⁴ and beat a nun, who was an arhantī, to death.”¹²⁵ Then, at that time, the Bhagavān spoke the following verses:¹²⁶ “Those who are so foolish as to treat with contempt and reject The teaching of those noble ones who worthily live according to the truth, Because they have resorted to evil views, Cultivate a deadly fruit, like the fruit of the thorny bamboo.¹²⁷ ¹²⁸ They should only speak benevolently. They should not speak maliciously. - [Previous: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000.10) - [Next: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000.12) ## Linked texts (1) - [ཚེའི་མཐའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo.11) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000.11) · Pramāṇa