經律異相 50.38

50.38

The fourth and fifth are called Raurava and Mahāraurava. As for the sinners in these great hells, rākṣasa hell wardens with yellow necks and red eyes emit fire from within; dressed in vermilion clothing, with firm and vigorous flesh, they run and shoot at the sinners. In frantic terror, the sinners kowtow and plead for mercy, crying out, 'Great general, show a little pity!' They are taken into a hot iron hell, a hundred yojanas in length and breadth. Beaten and driven to run, their feet are completely scorched, their fat and marrow flowing out like pressed ghee. Iron clubs strike their heads and foreheads, their brains flowing out like broken curd jars. They are again taken into iron pavilions, where black smoke comes to fumigate them. Heaping and pressing against one another, wishing to escape, the doors have already closed, and the sounds of their loud wailing and screeching continue unceasingly. In previous lives, these people cheated with bushels and scales, judged legal cases unlawfully, received deposits and failed to return them, oppressed the lowly and distressed the poor, causing them to weep; they destroyed others' cities and ruined villages, harming and plundering until an entire city cried out, or deceitfully enticed them out only to harm them: now they suffer the Raurava Hell. Fumigating to death burrowing creatures, shutting people in prisons, suffocating them to death in dark caves of smoke, or throwing people into wells to rob their wealth: all suffer the retribution of the Mahāraurava Hell.