[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) › 50.10 # 經律異相 50.10 經律異相 50.10 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [50.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50.10) 刀輪地獄者。四面刀山。於眾山間積刀如輪。有八百萬億極大刀輪。隨次而下猶如雨渧。以樂苦惱他殺害眾生。命終之時。患逆氣病心堅如石。即作是願。得一利刀削此諸患不亦快乎。是時獄卒頂戴刀輪翳令不現。至罪人所卑言遜辭。我有利刀能割重病。罪人歡喜即自念言。唯此為快。氣絕命終生刀輪上。如醉象走墮刀山間。是時四山一時俱合。四種刀山割切其身。不自勝持悶絕而死。獄卒羅剎驅蹙罪人。令登刀山來至山頂。刀傷足下乃至于心。畏獄卒故匍匐而上。既至山頂。獄卒手執一切樹揲。未死之間鐵狗嚙心楚毒百端。鐵蟲唼食肉皆都盡。尋復唱活。脚著鐵輪從空而下。一日一夜六十億生六十億死。如是眾多如四天王壽八千萬歲。罪畢乃出墮在畜生。五百世中有供眾口。復五百世受卑賤形。後遇善知識發菩提心。 > Regarding the Knife-Wheel Hell: there are knife mountains on four sides. Between the mountains, knives are piled like wheels. There are eight hundred million billion extremely large knife-wheels, descending in sequence like falling raindrops. Because of delighting in afflicting others and killing sentient beings, at the time of death, suffering from the disease of reverse qi and with a heart as hard as stone, they make this wish: 'Would it not be delightful to obtain a sharp knife to scrape away these ailments?' At that time, the hell-warden carries a knife-wheel on his head, concealing it so that it is not visible. Arriving at the sinner's place, he speaks with humble and courteous words: 'I have a sharp knife capable of cutting away severe illness.' The sinner is delighted and thinks to himself: 'Only this brings joy.' Their breath ceases, their life ends, and they are born atop the knife-wheel. Like a drunk elephant running, they fall between the knife mountains. At that time, the four mountains close together simultaneously. The four kinds of knife mountains cut and carve their body; unable to endure it, they faint and die. The hell-warden rākṣasas drive and urge the sinner, making them climb the knife mountain to reach the summit. Knives wound from beneath the feet up to the heart. Out of fear of the hell-wardens, they crawl upward. Having reached the mountain summit, the hell-wardens hold tree switches in their hands. Before they die, iron dogs bite their heart, inflicting hundreds of kinds of painful poisons. Iron worms gnaw and eat, devouring all their flesh. Soon \[the wardens\] again cry out, 'Live!' With iron wheels attached to their feet, they fall from the void. In one day and one night, they are born sixty billion times and die sixty billion times. Such \[punishment\] is manifold, lasting for eighty million years of the Cāturmahārājakāyika lifespan. When their sin is exhausted, they emerge and fall among animals, serving to feed the mouths of the multitude for five hundred lifetimes. For another five hundred lifetimes they take on lowly and base forms. Later, they meet a good friend and arouse the bodhicitta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 50.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50.9) - [Next: 50.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50.11) - [Up: 50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.50.10) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛說觀佛三昧海經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.643.5.19) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50.10) · Pramāṇa