經律異相 49.40

49.40

Between the two great Vajra mountains, there arises a great wind named Saṅkha. If this wind were to reach the four continents and the eighty thousand continents, all the mountains of the great earth, ten li or up to a hundred li above the ground, would be blown into the sky and completely pulverized, like chaff scattered in the air by the hand of a strongman. It is because the two great mountains block this wind [that the world survives]. If this wind were to reach the four continents, the sentient beings, streams, rivers, and oceans therein would all be scorched and dried up. Moreover, the wind between the mountains smells intensely foul, impure, fishy, and putrid; if it were to reach the four continents, its stench would blind all sentient beings. Furthermore, these two mountains provide great benefit, which is also brought about by the karmic retribution of sentient beings' deeds.