俱舍論記 11.119

11.119

「世尊寄喻至地獄壽量」者，解八寒地獄。佉梨，受一斛。婆訶，此云篅，受二十佉梨。一摩婆訶量，此顯婆訶量大小，不欲取摩，如言一穀篅。頌言「如一婆訶摩」者，顯取婆訶中麻，如言一篅穀。摩揭陀，此云無惱害。巨勝，胡麻異名。巨勝易盡，壽量難盡，顯壽長也。故《起世經》第四解寒地獄中云「諸比丘！如憍薩羅國斛量，如是胡麻滿二十斛，高盛不槩。而於其間有一丈夫，滿百年已取一胡麻（廣如彼經）。」以此故知佉梨是斛量，二十佉梨是一婆訶量。真諦廣以彼國計算云：「二十佉梨為一婆訶，一婆訶有二百五十六斛」者，不然。餘文可知。

Regarding "The World-Honoured One employed a metaphor […] the lifespan in the hells": this explains the eight cold hells. A khārī holds one hu. A vāha is translated here as a granary basket (shuan), which holds twenty khārīs. The measure of a māṣavāha: this indicates the size of the vāha measure, not intending to take māṣa [as the primary subject], just as one says "a grain basket". The verse says "like one vāha of sesame seeds", indicating taking the sesame seeds within the vāha, just as one says "a basket of grain". Magadha is translated here as "free from harm". Jushang is another name for sesame (huma). Sesame is easily exhausted, while the lifespan is difficult to exhaust, illustrating the length of the lifespan. Hence, chapter four of the *Sūtra on the Arising of the World* (*Lokasthāna-sūtra*), explaining the cold hells, says: "O bhikṣus! Just as by the hu-measure of the country of Kosala, twenty hu filled with sesame seeds, heaped high and not leveled with a strickle; and during that interval, a man, when a full hundred years have passed, takes one sesame seed (as detailed in that sūtra)." From this we know that a khārī is a hu-measure, and twenty khārīs make the measure of one vāha. Paramārtha broadly calculated according to that country, saying: "Twenty khārīs make one vāha, and one vāha contains two hundred and fifty-six hu"—this is incorrect. The remaining text can be understood.