諸經要集 18.73

18.73

爾時閻摩王。第三訶之語言。汝愚癡人。汝昔人時。豈可不見第三天使世間出耶。答言。大天。我實不見。王復告言。汝人間時。豈復不見婦女身。若丈夫身。隨時命終置於床上。以雜色衣而蒙覆之。將出聚落。升帳軒蓋種種莊嚴。眷屬圍繞。舉手散髮。灰土坌頭。極大悲惱。號咷哭泣舉聲大叫。椎胸哀慟酸哽楚切。汝悉見不。答言。大天。我實見之。時王告言。癡人汝昔既見如此。何不思惟。我亦有死。未得免離。今當作善。為我長夜得大利益。彼人答言。大天。我實不作如是思惟。何以故。以放逸故。時王告言。汝既放逸不作善業。自造此惡非他人造。得此果報汝還自受。以此三使教示訶責已。勅令將去。時守獄者。即執罪人兩足兩臂。以頭向下。以足向上。遙擲置於諸地獄中。

“Then King Yama reproached him a third time, saying to him, ‘You foolish person, when you were formerly a human, could you not have seen the third divine messenger appear in the world?’ He answers, ‘Great Deva, truly I did not see him.’ The king tells him again, ‘When you were in the human world, could you not have seen, whether a woman’s body or a man’s body, when life ended in due course, placed upon a bed, covered over with clothes of mixed colors, carried out of the settlement, mounted with curtains, carriages, and canopies, adorned in various ways, surrounded by kinsmen, raising their hands and disheveling their hair, scattering ashes and dirt over their heads in extreme grief and distress, wailing, weeping, and shouting loudly, beating their breasts in sorrow, choking with bitter sobs and intense distress? Did you see all of this or not?’ He answers, ‘Great Deva, truly I saw it.’ Then the king tells him, ‘Foolish person, in former times, having seen such, why did you not reflect: “I too am subject to death and have not managed to escape it; I ought now to perform good deeds so that throughout the long night I may attain great benefit”? That person answers, ‘Great Deva, truly I did not reflect thus. Why is that? Because of heedlessness.’ Then the king tells him, ‘Since you were heedless and did not perform wholesome karma, you made this evil yourself; it was not made by another. Having obtained this retribution, you yourself return to receive it.’ Having instructed, admonished, and reproached him with these three messengers, [the king] ordered that he be taken away. At that time, the wardens of hell seized the wrongdoer by both feet and both arms, with his head downward and feet upward, and hurled him far away into the various hells.”