[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) › 50.23 # 經律異相 50.23 經律異相 50.23 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [50.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50.23) 鐵丸地獄者。八十由旬滿中鐵城。八十八隔。一一隔中有五刀山。持用覆上。下有十八大惡鐵蛇。皆吐鐵劍劍頭火然。以毀辱布施言施無報。勸人藏積。向國王大臣沙門婆羅門及一切眾。說施無因亦無果報。此人臨終頸強脈縮。迴轉不語不喜見人。低視而臥心中但念。我積財寶。得與我俱快不可言。獄卒化作其妻捉熱鐵丸。化作寶器在其人前。語言。我隨汝死婉轉相著終不相離。氣絕命終生鐵城中東西馳走。鐵蛇出毒纏繞其身節頭火然。即作是念。願天愛我降注甘雨。應念即雨大熱鐵丸項入足出。罪畢乃為貧窮孤獨喑啞之人。歲數如鐵窟說。遇善知識發菩提心。 > The Iron Pellets Hell: eighty yojanas across, entirely filled with an iron city. It has eighty-eight compartments, and in each compartment are five knife-mountains covering them above. Below there are eighteen great, evil iron snakes, all spitting iron swords whose tips blaze with fire. Because someone slandered and disparaged giving, saying that giving brings no retribution, urged others to hoard and accumulate, and told kings, great ministers, śramaṇas, brāhmaṇas, and all the multitude that giving has no cause and no fruit of retribution, when this person approaches death, their neck stiffens and their pulse contracts. They turn away without speaking, dislike seeing people, lie down with downcast gaze, and think only in their mind: 'If the wealth and treasures I have accumulated could stay with me, it would be unutterably delightful!' At that time, a hell warden transforms into their wife holding a red-hot iron pellet, transformed into a precious vessel before the person, and says: 'I will die with you, entwined together, never to part.' When breath ceases and life ends, they are born inside the iron city, running frantically east and west. The iron snakes disgorge venom and coil around their body, the joints of their limbs blazing with fire. They then think: 'Would that the heavens take pity on me and pour down sweet rain!' In response to their thought, there immediately rains down massive, red-hot iron pellets, entering through the neck and coming out through the feet. When their punishment is finished, they are born as a poor, destitute, solitary, deaf-mute person, for a number of years as described for the Iron Cave. When they meet a good friend, they give rise to the bodhicitta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 50.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50.22) - [Next: 50.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50.24) - [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.50.23) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛說觀佛三昧海經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.643.5.30) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50.23) · Pramāṇa