大通方廣懺悔滅罪莊嚴成佛經 3.37

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佛復告文殊師利菩薩摩訶薩言。善男子。阿鼻地獄。縱廣正等。八萬由旬。七重鐵城上。有七重鐵網。下有十八鬲。周匝七重。是皆刀林。其七重城內。復有劍林。下有十八鬲。其一一鬲。八萬四千重。於其四角。復有四大銅狗。其身長大。四十由旬。眼如電光。牙如劍樹。齒如刀山。舌如鐵鉤。抓如鐵杈。尾如鐵蟒。一切毛孔。皆出猛火。其烟臭惡。世間臭物。無以可比。其獄四門。一一門邊。復有十八獄卒。頭如羅剎頭。口如羅剎口。頭上十八角。手捉鐵叉。七重城內。有無數鐵幢。幢頭火涌。如沸涌泉。其鐵流迸。滿阿鼻城中。阿鼻四門。其一一門上。復有十八銅釜。沸鐵涌出。四門漫流。滿阿鼻城。一一鬲間。復有八萬四千鐵蟒大蛇。吐毒吐火。身滿城中。其蛇哮吼。如天大雷。雨大鐵丸。滿阿鼻城。此城苦事。八萬億千。苦中苦者。惱中惱者。皆集此城。阿鼻地獄。四方有門。一一門外。各有猛火。東西南北。交過通徹。八萬由旬。周匝鐵牆。鐵網彌覆。其地亦鐵。上火徹下。下火徹上。四維上下。周匝一時。苦事俱起。如上所說。四重八禁。犯戒五逆。及謗方等。若不依此經中懺悔。而無慚愧。其人命終。如大壯士。屈申臂頃。落入阿鼻地獄。身滿其中。熱腦急故。口噤不語。唯復張眼合口。合口張眼。此人罪故。萬億刀輪。從空而下。頭入足出。一切苦事。過上所說。百千萬倍。若有具犯四重。受大苦惱。具足五大劫。八禁復倍。五逆復倍。謗方等經復倍。謗三寶。偷僧祇物。污淨行比丘。污比丘尼。謗師害師者。若人姦母。如此人等。復倍加上。除一闡提。永斷善根。不出阿鼻。是等罪人。受苦之時。猛火入心。悶絕而死。獄卒羅剎。以鐵叉打地。喚言活活。應聲即活。一日一夜。萬死萬生。受大苦惱。如上所說。其人從阿鼻地獄出。以破戒因緣。虛食信施。復入諸小十八地獄。所謂寒氷地獄。黑闇地獄。燋熱地獄。刀輪地獄。劍輪地獄。火車地獄。沸屎地獄。濩湯地獄。灰河地獄。劍林地獄。鐵床地獄。銅柱地獄。鐵機地獄。鐵輪地獄。鐵窟地獄。鐵丸地獄。尖石地獄。飲銅地獄。各八百萬歲。然後得出。常生下處。五百世中。不識三寶。值善知識。得發菩提。不值知識。還墮地獄。犯突吉羅罪。若不懺悔。地獄受苦。如四天王日月八百萬歲。波夜提罪復加二倍。僧殘罪復加二倍。是諸罪人。受苦之時。更無餘言。唯得唱言。阿波波。阿吒吒。阿羅羅。阿婆婆。是故有罪。當急懺悔。還歸三寶。

The Buddha further said to the Bodhisattva-Mahāsattva Mañjuśrī: “Good son, the Avīci Hell is exactly eighty thousand yojanas long and wide. Above its sevenfold iron ramparts are seven layers of iron nets. Below, there are eighteen compartments, encircled in seven folds, all of which are forests of blades. Within the sevenfold walls, there are furthermore forests of swords. Below, there are eighteen compartments, each of which has eighty-four thousand tiers. At its four corners there are four great bronze dogs, forty yojanas in height and length, with eyes like lightning flashes, fangs like trees of swords, teeth like mountains of knives, tongues like iron hooks, claws like iron forks, and tails like iron pythons. From all their pores blazing fire bursts forth, and its smoke and stench are foul beyond anything foul in the world. Beside each of the four gates of this hell there are eighteen hell-wardens, with heads like rākṣasa heads, mouths like rākṣasa mouths, eighteen horns upon their heads, holding iron pitchforks in their hands. Within the sevenfold walls are countless iron pillars, and from the tops of the pillars fire surges up like a boiling spring. Liquid iron gushes forth, filling the city of Avīci. Above each of the four gates of Avīci there are eighteen bronze cauldrons; boiling iron surges out and flows over the four gates, filling the city of Avīci. Between each compartment there are eighty-four thousand great iron python-serpents spitting venom and fire, their bodies filling the city. These serpents roar like great thunder in the heavens, and rain down huge iron pellets that fill the city of Avīci. The tortures of this city number eighty billion thousand; the most bitter of bitters and the most vexing of vexations are all gathered in this city. The Avīci Hell has gates on all four sides. Outside each gate is a blazing fire, crossing through from east to west and north to south, piercing through for eighty thousand yojanas. Encircling it are iron walls, covered over by iron nets, and its ground is also iron. Fire from above pierces through to below, and fire from below pierces through to above. In all four directions, above, and below, all around at once, the tortures arise together. If someone has committed the four major transgressions, the eight prohibitions, the broken-precept offenses of the five unpardonables, or slander of the vaipulya scriptures as spoken of above, and does not perform kṣamā according to this sūtra, remaining without shame or conscience, then at the end of their life, as swiftly as a strong man bends and stretches his arm, they fall into the Avīci Hell. Their body fills the hell completely. Because of the extremity of the scorching torment, their mouth is locked and cannot speak; they can only open their eyes and shut their mouth, or shut their mouth and open their eyes. Because of this person’s sins, hundreds of billions of wheeling knives descend from the sky, entering at the head and exiting at the feet. All the suffering exceeds that described above by hundreds of thousands of times. If someone has fully committed the four major transgressions, they will suffer great torment for five great kalpas. For the eight prohibitions it is doubled; for the five unpardonables it is doubled again; for slandering the vaipulya scriptures it is doubled again. Slandering the Three Jewels, stealing from the saṅgha, defiling pure-practicing monks or defiling nuns, slandering teachers or murdering teachers, or committing incest with one’s mother—for such people, [the duration] is doubled still further. Only the icchantikas, who have severed their roots of goodness forever, never emerge from Avīci. When these sinners undergo their suffering, fierce fire penetrates their hearts, and they faint and die. The rākṣasa hell-wardens strike the ground with iron forks and shout, ‘Live! Live!’ and immediately at their call the sinners revive. In a single day and night, they die ten thousand deaths and are born ten thousand times, undergoing great torment as described above. When such a person emerges from the Avīci Hell, on account of their transgression of the precepts and their eating in vain of the offerings of the faithful, they further enter the various eighteen minor hells: namely, the Hell of Freezing Ice, the Hell of Black Darkness, the Hell of Scorching Heat, the Hell of Knife Wheels, the Hell of Sword Wheels, the Hell of Fire Chariots, the Hell of Boiling Excrement, the Hell of the Boiling Cauldron, the Hell of the River of Ashes, the Hell of the Sword Forest, the Hell of the Iron Bed, the Hell of the Bronze Pillar, the Hell of the Iron Press, the Hell of the Iron Wheel, the Hell of the Iron Cave, the Hell of the Iron Pellets, the Hell of Sharp Stones, and the Hell of Drinking Molten Bronze. In each they spend eight million years before they can emerge. They are always reborn in low and wretched places, and for five hundred lives they do not know the Three Jewels. If they meet a kalyāṇamitra, they may bring forth bodhi[citta]; if they do not meet a kalyāṇamitra, they fall back into hell. If one commits a duṣkṛta offense and does not perform kṣamā, the suffering undergone in hell lasts for eight million years measured by the days and months of the Four Heavenly Kings. For a pāyattika offense it is doubled; for a saṃghāvaśeṣa offense it is doubled yet again. When these sinners undergo their torment, they have no other words to utter; they can only cry out: ‘Apababa! Aṭaṭa! Ararara! Abababa!’ Therefore, those who have offenses should urgently perform kṣamā and take refuge once more in the Three Jewels.”