經律異相 49.32

49.32

黑繩大地獄。有十六小獄周匝圍遶。各縱廣五百由旬。何故名黑繩。其諸獄卒捉彼罪人撲熱鐵上。舒展其身以熱鐵繩絣之使直。以熱鐵斧逐繩道斫罪人作百千段。復次以鐵繩絣鋸之。復次懸熱鐵繩交橫無數。驅迫罪人使行繩間。惡風暴起吹諸鐵繩歷絡其身。燒皮徹肉燋骨沸髓苦毒萬端。餘罪未畢故使不死。故名黑繩。久受苦已乃出黑繩至黑沙地獄。乃至寒氷地獄然後命終。惡意向父母佛及聲聞。則墮黑繩獄苦痛不可稱。

The great Kālasūtra hell is surrounded all around by sixteen minor hells, each five hundred yojanas in extent. Why is it called Kālasūtra (Black Rope)? The hell-wardens seize those sinners, fling them onto hot iron, stretch out their bodies, and mark them straight with hot iron ropes as carpenter's lines; with hot iron axes they chop along the rope-lines, cutting the sinners into hundreds and thousands of pieces. Furthermore, they mark them with iron ropes and saw them. Furthermore, countless hot iron ropes are suspended in crisscross patterns; they drive and compel the sinners to walk among the ropes. A fierce evil wind arises, blowing the iron ropes to lash across their bodies, burning through the skin and flesh, charring the bones and boiling the marrow with myriad kinds of agonizing torment. Because their remaining retribution is not yet finished, it makes them not die; hence it is called Kālasūtra. Having endured suffering for a long time, they then exit Kālasūtra and reach the Black Sand hell, and so forth up to the Cold Ice hell, after which their life comes to an end. Harbouring evil intentions toward parents, the Buddha, or śrāvakas, one falls into the Kālasūtra hell, its bitter pain beyond description.