[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123) › 18.34 # 諸經要集 18.34 諸經要集 18.34 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [18.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.18.34) 如起世經云。佛言。如憍薩羅國斛量胡麻。滿二十斛。高盛不槩。有一丈夫。滿百年已取一胡麻。如是次第滿百年已。復取一粒擲置餘處。擲滿二十斛胡麻盡已。爾所時節我說其壽。猶未畢盡。且以此數略而計之。名一頞浮陀壽。如是二十頞浮陀壽。為一泥羅浮陀壽。二十泥羅浮陀壽。為一阿呼壽。二十阿呼壽。為一呼呼婆壽。二十呼呼婆壽。為一阿吒吒壽。二十阿吒吒壽。為一搔揵提迦壽。二十搔揵提迦壽。為一優鉢羅壽。二十優鉢羅壽為一拘牟陀壽。二十拘牟陀壽。為一奔荼梨迦壽。二十奔荼梨迦壽。為一波頭摩壽。二十波頭摩壽。為一中劫。又那先比丘問佛經云。如世間火。不如泥犁中火熱。如持小石著世間火中。至暮不消。取大石著泥犁火中即消。亦如有人作惡。死在泥犁中。數千萬歲其人不死。亦如大蟒蛟龍等。以沙石為食即消。如人懷胎。腹中有子不消。此並由善惡業力。致使消與不消。如人所作善惡隨人。如影隨身。人死但亡其身不亡其行。譬如然火夜書。火滅字在。火至後成。今世所作行。後世成之。 > As the \*Lokotpatti-sūtra\* states, the Buddha said: 'Suppose there is a Kosalan bushel measuring sesame seeds, filled to twenty bushels, heaped high and not leveled. There is a man who, after the passage of every full hundred years, removes one sesame seed. In this manner, after the passage of each full hundred years, he again takes another grain and casts it elsewhere. Even after all the sesame seeds filling those twenty bushels have been cast aside and exhausted, the lifespan I speak of would still not be finished. Yet taking this number as a rough calculation, it is called one Arbuda lifespan. Twenty Arbuda lifespans make one Nirarbuda lifespan. Twenty Nirarbuda lifespans make one Aṭaṭa lifespan. Twenty Aṭaṭa lifespans make one Hahava lifespan. Twenty Hahava lifespans make one Huhuva lifespan. Twenty Huhuva lifespans make one Saugandhika lifespan. Twenty Saugandhika lifespans make one Utpala lifespan. Twenty Utpala lifespans make one Kumuda lifespan. Twenty Kumuda lifespans make one Puṇḍarīkā lifespan. Twenty Puṇḍarīkā lifespans make one Padma lifespan. Twenty Padma lifespans make one intermediate kalpa.' Furthermore, the \*Sūtra of the Questions of the Bhikṣu Nāgasena\* states: 'The fires of the mundane world are not as hot as the fire in hell. If a small stone is placed in mundane fire, it will not melt until dusk. If a large boulder is placed in hellfire, it melts immediately. It is also like a person who commits evil and dies in hell: for tens of millions of years that person does not die. It is also like large pythons, flood dragons, and the like, which eat sand and stones and digest them immediately; yet when a woman is pregnant, the fetus within her womb is not digested. All of this is due to the karmic force of good and evil that causes digestion or non-digestion. Good and evil committed by a person follow them like a shadow follows the body. When a person dies, only their physical form perishes, but their actions do not perish. It is like lighting a fire to write at night: when the fire goes out, the characters remain; when fire comes again later, they are realized. The actions performed in the present life are realized in future lives.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 18.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.18.33) - [Next: 18.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.18.35) - [Up: 18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.18) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123~en-mt.18.34) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [起世因本經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.lokaprajnaptisutra*zh-dharmagupta.4.11) — Classical Chinese - [起世經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.lokaprajnaptisutra*zh-jnanagupta.4.22) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.18.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.18.34) · Pramāṇa