諸經要集 18.18

18.18

第七大燒炙地獄。亦有十六小地獄圍遶（大小同前）何故名大燒炙地獄。謂將諸罪人置鐵城中。其城火然內外俱赤。燒炙罪人皮肉燋爛。萬毒並至。有大火坑火焰熾盛。其坑兩岸有大火山。捉彼罪人貫鐵叉上竪著火中。熏大燒炙皮肉燋爛。餘罪未畢故使不死。久受苦已出大燒炙。乃至寒氷。爾乃命終。由捨善業為眾惡行。故墮大燒炙地獄。

Seventh is the Great Searing Heat Hell. It also has sixteen minor hells surrounding it (their sizes are as before). Why is it called the Great Searing Heat Hell? It means that the sinners are taken and placed inside an iron city. That city burns with fire, glowing red both inside and out, searing the sinners so that their skin and flesh are scorched and rotten. Ten thousand agonies arrive all at once. There is a great fire pit with raging flames. On both banks of the pit there are great fiery mountains. Those sinners are seized and impaled upon iron forks, standing upright in the fire, smoked and intensely seared so that their skin and flesh are scorched and rotten. Because their remaining transgressions are not yet exhausted, it makes them not die. After enduring suffering for a long time, they exit the Great Searing Heat [Hell] and proceed all the way to the Freezing Ice [Hell], and only then does their life come to an end. It is due to abandoning good karma and performing a multitude of evil deeds that they fall into the Great Searing Heat Hell.