經律異相 50.25

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飲銅地獄者。千二百種雜色銅車。一銅車上六千銅丸。以慳貪嫉妬邪見惡說。不施父母妻子眷屬及與一切。心生慳嫉見他得利如箭入心。如是罪人欲命終時。多病消瘦昏言囈語。是時獄卒化以銅車載果至罪人所。得已歡喜。即作念言。得此美果甚適我願。氣絕命終生銅車上。不久即往生銅山間。銅車轉頸。獄卒以鉗挓口飲以烊銅。迷悶躄地唱言飢飢。尋時獄卒擘口令開。以銅鐵丸置其口中。吞十八丸。節節火然東西馳走。經於七日爾乃命終。獄卒唱言。汝前身時。諛諂邪見慳貪嫉妬。以是因緣受鐵丸報。或曾出家毀犯輕戒。久不悔過虛食信施。以此因緣食諸鐵丸。此人罪報億千萬歲不識水穀。受罪既畢還生人中。五百世中言語𡅶吃不自辯了。以宿習故食後噉土塊。過是以後遇善知識發菩提心（出觀佛三昧法經第五卷）。

The Drinking Molten Copper Hell: there are one thousand two hundred kinds of variegated copper carts, and on each copper cart are six thousand copper pellets. Because of stinginess, greed, jealousy, wrong views, and evil talk, refusing to give to parents, wife, children, relatives, and all others, giving rise to stinginess and jealousy in their mind, so that seeing others obtain gain is like an arrow piercing their heart—when such sinners are about to die, they suffer much illness, emaciation, delirium, and sleep-talking. At that time, a hell warden transforms into a copper cart laden with fruit and comes to the sinner's place. Having obtained it, they rejoice and think: 'Obtaining these delicious fruits completely suits my wish!' When breath ceases and life ends, they are born upon the copper cart, and soon go to be born among copper mountains. The copper carts twist their necks, and the hell wardens pry open their mouths with pincers, forcing them to drink molten copper. Fainting and dazed, they collapse to the ground crying, 'Hungry! Hungry!' Immediately the hell wardens tear their mouths open and place copper and iron pellets in their mouths. They swallow eighteen pellets; joint by joint they blaze with fire as they run east and west. After seven days they finally die. The hell wardens cry out: 'In your former life, you flattered, held wrong views, and were stingy, greedy, and jealous; for this reason you receive the retribution of iron pellets. Or you once left the household life, violated minor precepts, went long without repenting, and uselessly consumed the gifts of the faithful; for this reason you eat iron pellets.' This person's retribution lasts for hundreds of millions of years without knowing water or grain. When their punishment is finished, they return to birth among humans, and for five hundred lives their speech will be stammering and indistinct, unable to express themselves. Due to past habituation, after eating they chew clods of earth. After this passes, they meet a good friend and give rise to the bodhicitta (Extracted from Fascicle 5 of the *Sūtra on the Samādhi of the Contemplation of the Buddha*).