經律異相 49.37

49.37

The Pratāpana hell has sixteen minor hells, each five hundred yojanas in extent. They lead the sinners and place them into an iron city; that city is ablaze with fire, red-hot inside and out, scorching the sinners so that their skin and flesh are charred and rotted, and myriad afflictions arrive at once. There is a great fire pit whose flames burn fiercely; on both sides of that pit there are great flaming mountains. Seizing those sinners, [the wardens] impale them upon iron forks, standing them upright in the fire, where double fires scorch them so that their skin and flesh are charred and rotted. Because their remaining retribution is not yet finished, it makes them not die. Having endured suffering for a long time, they exit Pratāpana and reach the Black Sand hell, and so forth up to the Cold Ice [hell], only then does their life come to an end. Abandoning the fruition of wholesome karma and committing numerous evil deeds, one falls into the Pratāpana hell.