諸經要集 14.19

14.19

又增一阿含經云。佛告比丘。若人作賊。偷盜他物為主所執。縛送付王治其盜罪。王即遣人。閉著牢獄。或截手足。或刖耳鼻。或剝其皮。或抽其筋。或取倒懸。或時鋸解。或以火炙。或時湯煮。或以生革轉絡其頭。或復洋銅而灌其身。或以長橛而刺其臗。或使惡象而以蹈殺。或開其腹抽腹佇草。或時反縛。打惡聲鼓。將詣市所標下斬首。或復節節支解其形。或以刀破。或時箭射。如是種種苦切殺之。以此偷盜惡業因緣。命終之後生地獄中。猛火燒身融銅灌口。鑊湯鑪炭刀山劍樹。煻灰糞屎磨磨碓擣。受如是等種種諸苦。酸楚毒害痛不能稱計。百千萬歲脫出無期。地獄罪畢。生畜生中。象馬牛羊駝驢犬等。經百千歲。以償他力。畜生罪畢生餓鬼中。飢渴苦惱不可具言。初不聞有漿水之名。經百千歲受如是苦。惡道罪畢出生人中。若生人中。得二種報。一者貧窮。衣不蓋形。食不充口。二者常為王賊火水及以惡賊劫奪。

Furthermore, the Ekottarika-āgama says: The Buddha addressed the bhikṣus: “Suppose a person acts as a thief, stealing the property of another, and is seized by the owner, bound, and delivered to the king to punish his crime of theft. The king then dispatches men to shut him in prison; or to cut off his hands and feet; or to sever his ears and nose; or to flay his skin; or to extract his sinews; or to hang him upside down; or at times to saw him apart; or to roast him with fire; or at times to boil him in hot water; or to wrap his head with raw hide; or furthermore to pour molten copper over his body; or to pierce his loins with a long stake; or to have fierce elephants trample him to death; or to open his abdomen and extract the innards to stuff with grass; or at times to bind his hands behind him, beat the ominous drum, lead him to the marketplace, and beneath the standard sever his head; or furthermore to dismember his form joint by joint; or to hack him with knives; or at times to shoot him with arrows. In these various ways they cruelly kill him. Because of the cause and condition of this evil karma of stealing, after his life ends he is born in hell: blazing fires incinerate his body; molten copper is poured into his mouth; cauldrons of boiling liquid, braziers of coals, mountains of knives, and forests of swords; hot embers and ordure; grinding mills and crushing pestles. He undergoes various such sufferings, grievous and venomously harmful, painful beyond calculation, with no time of release for hundreds of thousands of myriad years. When his punishment in hell is ended, he is born among the animals—as an elephant, horse, ox, sheep, camel, donkey, dog, and so forth—for hundreds of thousands of years, to repay the labor of others. When his punishment as an animal is ended, he is born among the hungry ghosts, where the anguish of hunger and thirst cannot be fully told: from the beginning he never hears the name of soup or water, undergoing such suffering for hundreds of thousands of years. When his punishment in the evil destinies is ended, he comes forth to be born among humans. If born among humans, he receives two kinds of retribution: first, he is impoverished, his clothes not covering his body, and food not filling his mouth; second, he is constantly despoiled and plundered by kings, thieves, fires, floods, and evil robbers.”