經律異相 50.19

50.19

銅柱地獄者。有一銅柱林如火山。高六百由旬。下有猛火火上鐵床上有刀輪。間有鐵𭉨蟲鐵口烏。以貪惑滋多染愛不淨。非處非時行不淨業。設有比丘尼婆羅門等諸梵行者。若非時於非處犯不淨法。乃至一切犯邪行者。如此罪人臨命終時。舉身反強振掉不定。即作是念。得一堅大銅鐵柱者。縛此身體令不動搖。獄卒應時化作僮僕。手執鐵杖至罪人所。白言長者。汝今身強餘物皆弱可捉此杖。心即歡喜氣絕命終。如挊杖頃生銅柱頭。猛火焰熾焚燒其身。驚怖下視見鐵床上。有端正女。若是女人見端正男。心生愛著從銅柱上下投于地。銅柱貫身鐵網絡頸鐵𭉨諸蟲唼食其軀。落鐵床上。男女俱時六根火起。有鐵𭉨蟲從眼而入從男女根出。若污戒者別有九億諸小蟲輩。如𧑀蛆蟲有十二𭉨。𭉨頭出火唼食其體。一日一夜九百億生九百億死。出生鳩鴿身經五百世。復生龍中經五百身。後生人中無根二根。及不定根黃門之身經五百世。設得為人。妻不貞良子不慈孝奴婢不從。過是已後遇善知識發菩提心。

As for the Hell of the Copper Pillar: There is a forest of copper pillars like a mountain of fire, six hundred yojanas high. Below are fierce fires; atop the fires are iron beds, and upon them are blade-wheels. Interspersed are iron-beaked insects and iron-billed crows. Because of greed and delusion growing profuse, and tainted craving for impurity, practicing impure karma at improper places and improper times—or even if there are bhikṣuṇīs, brāhmaṇas, and other practitioners of the brahma-conduct who violate the impure dharma at improper times and in improper places, extending to all who commit sexual misconduct—when such sinners are about to die, their entire bodies bend backward and stiffen, trembling and shuddering unstably. They then form this thought: 'If I could obtain a solid, large pillar of copper or iron, I could bind this body so that it does not shake.' In response to the moment, the hell wardens transform into servants holding iron staves and go to the sinner's place, saying: 'Elder, now your body is rigid and all other things are weak; you may grasp this staff.' His mind immediately rejoices; his breath ceases and his life ends. In the time it takes to raise a staff, he is born atop a copper pillar. Fierce flames blaze, burning his body. Frightened, he looks down and sees atop an iron bed a shapely woman—or if it is a woman, she sees a handsome man. Giving rise to affectionate craving, they throw themselves down from the copper pillar to the ground. The copper pillar pierces the body, an iron net wraps the neck, and iron-beaked insects devour the torso. Falling onto the iron bed, fire arises simultaneously from the six sense faculties of both man and woman. There are iron-beaked insects that enter through the eyes and exit through the male and female organs. If one has defiled the precepts, there are separately nine hundred million small insects, like maggots, with twelve beaks; fire shoots from the tips of their beaks as they gnaw and eat the body. In a single day and night, there are nine hundred billion births and nine hundred billion deaths. Emerging, he takes the bodies of doves and pigeons for five hundred lifetimes; he is then born among nāgas for five hundred lives; afterward, he is born among humans without sex organs, with both sex organs, or with indeterminate organs, as a eunuch for five hundred lifetimes. Even if he manages to become a human, his wife is not chaste and good, his children are not filial and affectionate, and his male and female slaves do not obey him. After this has passed, he meets a good spiritual friend and gives rise to the bodhicitta.