俱舍論頌疏論本 11.23

11.23

釋曰：此贍部洲下，過二萬，有阿鼻旨大捺落迦，深廣同前，謂各二萬，故彼底去此四萬踰繕那。以於其中受苦無間，非如餘七捺落迦受苦非恒，故名無間。且如等活捺落迦中，諸有情身雖被種種斫刺磨擣，而彼暫遇涼風所吹，還活如本，由此理故立等活名。阿鼻旨中無如是事。有餘師說：「阿鼻旨中無樂間苦，故名無間，餘地獄中雖無異熟，而有等流。」

The explanation says: Twenty thousand [yojanas] below this Jambūdvīpa is the great Avīci Naraka. Its depth and breadth are equal to the preceding, namely, each twenty thousand; therefore its bottom is forty thousand yojanas away from here. Because in it suffering is experienced without interval (avīci), unlike the other seven narakas where the experience of suffering is not constant, it is named "Without Interval" (Avīci). Take, for instance, the Saṃjīva Naraka: although the bodies of sentient beings are hacked, pierced, ground, and pounded in various ways, yet when they are momentarily blown upon by a cool wind, they revive as before; on account of this principle, the name Saṃjīva (Reviving) is established. In Avīci, there is no such occurrence. Other masters say: "In Avīci there is no suffering interspersed with pleasure, hence it is named Avīci; in the other hells, although there is no [pleasurable] fruition (vipāka), there is outflow (niṣyanda)."