法苑珠林 7.28

7.28

又立世毘曇論云。世尊說。有大地獄名曰黑闇。各各世界外邊悉有。皆無覆蓋。此中眾生自舉手眼不能見。雖復日月具大威神。所有光明不照彼色。諸佛出世大光遍照。因此光明互得相見。住在兩山世界鐵輪外邊名曰界外。是寒地獄。於兩山間有十名。一名頞浮陀。乃至第十名波頭摩。彼中眾生傍行。作向上想猶如守宮。鐵輪外邊常作傍行。是其身量如頞多大。因冷風觸其身坼破。譬如熟瓜。如竹𥯤林被大火燒。爆聲吒吒。如是眾生被寒風觸。骨破爆聲吒吒遠徹。因是聲故互得相知。有諸眾生此中受生。若有眾生於此間死多往生彼。寒氷地獄在鐵輪外。若餘世界有眾生死應生寒氷地獄。多彼世界鐵輪外生。兩界中間其最狹處。八萬由旬。在下無底向上無覆。其最廣處十六萬由旬。

Furthermore, the Lokasthitābhidharma-śāstra states: The World-Honoured One said that there is a great hell named Pitch Blackness. It exists on the outer perimeter of each and every world, completely without cover. The sentient beings within it cannot even see their own raised hands before their eyes. Although the sun and moon possess great majestic supernormal power, whatever light they have does not shine upon the forms there. When the Buddhas appear in the world, their great light shines everywhere, and only because of this light can they see one another. Dwelling between two mountain-worlds on the outer edge of the Iron Ring, it is called ‘Outside the Boundary’. This is a cold hell. Between the two mountains there are ten names: the first is named Arbuda, up to the tenth named Padma. Sentient beings there move horizontally, yet imagine themselves facing upward, like geckos. On the outer perimeter of the Iron Ring, they constantly move horizontally. Their bodily size is as large as an addha. Cut by the touch of the cold wind, their bodies burst open, like ripe melons. Just as when a bamboo forest is burned by a great fire, crackling sounds burst out ‘ṭa-ṭa’, so when these sentient beings are touched by the cold wind, the bursting sounds of their breaking bones crackle ‘ṭa-ṭa’, penetrating far into the distance. Because of this sound, they come to know one another. Sentient beings are born and undergo retribution within it. If sentient beings die in this realm, many are reborn there. The freezing ice hells lie outside the Iron Ring. If sentient beings in other worlds die and are destined to be born in the freezing ice hells, most are born outside the Iron Ring of those worlds. Between the two boundaries, at its narrowest point, it is eighty thousand yojanas wide; below, it is bottomless, and above, it has no cover. At its widest point, it is one hundred and sixty thousand yojanas wide.