[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [經律異相](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121) › 49.25 # 經律異相 49.25 經律異相 49.25 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [49.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.49.25) 是謂寒地獄。問云何熱地獄。答一有主治。二少主治。三無主治。此三相治者是考掠也。有主。一者治活。二行。三黑繩。活地獄者。獄卒以利刀斧解剝剉斬罪眾生如斬剉草頭。皮肉解散罪緣未盡。以冷風吹還生如故。復因罪惡手生鐵爪鋒利猶刀。各生怨結更相摑截。如刈竹葦。彼此相聞結恨心死故生此中。黑繩地獄者。挓罪人著地。以黑繩拼\[(巳/廾)\*ㄆ\]\[(巳/廾)\*ㄆ\]斫截。以斫眾生故生彼地獄。 > These are called the cold hells. Question: What are the hot hells? Answer: First, those with a tormentor; second, those with few tormentors; third, those without a tormentor. These three modes of governance are interrogation and torture. Those with a tormentor: first, Saṃjīva (Reviving); second, Rows (Cāra); third, Kālasūtra (Black Rope). In the Saṃjīva hell, hell wardens with sharp knives and axes butcher, flay, chop, and hack sinful sentient beings, like chopping the tips of grass. Their skin and flesh are hacked apart, but since the conditions of their sins are not yet exhausted, cold winds blow and they revive as before. Furthermore, due to their sinful deeds, iron claws grow on their hands, as sharp as knives; each conceives hatred and resentfully tears and slashes at one another, like cutting down bamboo and reeds. Hearing one another, they die with hearts full of resentment, and therefore are born herein. In the Kālasūtra hell, they pin the sinners to the ground, mark them with black carpenter's cords, and chop and hack them apart; because of chopping sentient beings, they are born in that hell. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 49.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.49.24) - [Next: 49.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.49.26) - [Up: 49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.49) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.49.25) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.49.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.49.25) · Pramāṇa