法苑珠林 6.9

6.9

如婆沙論說。餓鬼有二住。一正。二邊。第一正住者。說之不定。彼論說云。此閻浮提五百由旬之下有餓鬼界。被閻羅王領。是其正處。又善生優婆塞經。亦同此說。五百由旬之下有閻羅鬼王城。周匝四面七萬五百千由旬。王領鬼眾於中止住。又如五道苦經說。此之餓鬼。正住彼鐵圍兩山中間。故說偈言。

As the *Mahāvibhāṣā* says, hungry ghosts have two [types of] abodes: first, the primary; second, the peripheral. As for the first, the primary abode, the accounts vary. That treatise says: "Five hundred yojanas beneath this Jambudvīpa there is the hungry ghost realm, governed by King Yama; that is their primary place." The *Upāsaka-śīla Sūtra* also shares this account: "Five hundred yojanas below there is the city of the ghost king Yama, seventy-five thousand yojanas on all four sides. The king governs the assembly of ghosts and dwells within it." Furthermore, as the *Sūtra on the Sufferings of the Five Destinies* says: "These hungry ghosts primarily dwell between the two Iron Ring Mountains (Cakravāḍa)." Thus a verse says: