法苑珠林 70.29

70.29

Third is sexual misconduct, violating other people's women. Such a person is either discovered by the husband or those nearby, immediately meeting disaster, punished with knives and staves, their heads and feet severed, bringing calamity upon their clan; or they are captured by the king's law, bound in prison, and subjected to cruel torture, bearing the punishment themselves. Upon death, they enter hell, made to lie upon iron beds or embrace copper pillars, as the hell-wardens kindle fire to burn their bodies. When the offenses in hell are completed, they become animals. If they later become humans, their households will be sexually disordered, far from the Buddha and contrary to the Dharma, never drawing near to the virtuous assembly, constantly harboring fear, facing much danger and little peace. Seeing this, I did not dare engage in sexual misconduct again; this was my third teacher. The Buddha then spoke a gāthā, saying: