經律異相 50.14

50.14

十八鑊湯地獄者。有十八鑊。縱廣正等各四十由旬。七重鐵網滿中沸鐵。五百羅剎鼓大石炭。燒其銅鑊焰焰相次。經六十日火不可滅。閻浮提日滿十二萬歲。鑊湯上涌化成火輪。還入鑊中。以毀佛禁戒殺生祠祀。為噉肉故焚燒山野傷害眾生。生噉眾生以火焚燒。如此罪人命欲終時。身心煩悶失大小便不自禁制。或熱如湯或冷如氷。即作是念。得大溫水入中沐浴不亦樂乎。獄卒羅剎化作僮僕。手擎湯盆至罪人所。心生愛樂。氣絕命終生鑊湯中。速疾消爛唯餘骨在。鐵叉掠出鐵狗嗗之。嘔吐在地尋復還活。獄卒驅蹙還令入鑊。鐵鑊熱故攀劍樹上。骨肉斷壞落鑊湯中。一日一夜恒沙死生。罪畢生為猪羊鷄狗。短命之處無不經歷。如是受身八千萬歲。命終之後還生人中。受二種報。一者多病。二者短命。過算數劫遇善知識。受持五戒行六波羅蜜。

As for the Hell of the Eighteen Cauldrons of Boiling Liquid: There are eighteen cauldrons, each measuring exactly forty yojanas in length and breadth. Sevenfold iron nets are filled with boiling iron. Five hundred rākṣasas fan large stone coals to heat the copper cauldrons, the flames blazing continuously. For sixty days the fire cannot be extinguished. In Jambudvīpa time, it takes a full one hundred and twenty thousand years. The boiling broth in the cauldrons surges upward, turns into fire-wheels, and falls back into the cauldrons. Because they broke the Buddha's prohibitive precepts, killed living beings for sacrificial offerings, burned hills and wildernesses to eat meat, harming living beings, and ate beings alive or burned them with fire, when such sinners are about to die, their bodies and minds are distraught and troubled; they lose control of their bowels and urine without restraint; they become either as hot as boiling broth or as cold as ice. Then they form this thought: 'If I could obtain much warm water and enter it to bathe, would that not be delightful?' The warden rākṣasas transform into servants holding bath basins and arrive at the sinner's place. The sinner gives rise to affection and delight. When his breath ceases and his life ends, he is born in the boiling cauldron. He swiftly melts and rots away, with only bones remaining. Iron pitchforks hoist them out, and iron dogs devour them. Vomited out onto the ground, he immediately revives. The hell wardens drive and press him to enter the cauldron again. Because the iron cauldron is scorching hot, he climbs up the sword trees; his flesh and bones are cut and destroyed, and he drops back into the boiling cauldron. In a single day and night, he dies and is born as many times as the sands of the Ganges. When his penalty is finished, he is born as a pig, sheep, chicken, or dog; there is no place of short lifespans that he does not experience. Having undergone such bodily forms for eighty million years, after his life ends he is reborn among humans, where he receives two kinds of retributions: first, being sickly; second, having a short lifespan. After passing kalpas beyond reckoning, he meets a good spiritual friend, receives and upholds the five precepts, and practices the six perfections.