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佛說佛名經 10.22

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10.22

Within the south gate, there were five thousand śramaṇas who called out, saying: 'What sin have we committed now to enter herein?' A horse-headed rākṣasa held a three-pronged iron fork in his hand, striking toward their backs so that it exited through their chests. When the sinners entered into the hell, iron spears pierced their feet, and smoke and flames surged upward, burning through their chests and hearts. In a single day and night they endured myriad kinds of punishment, dying a thousand times and being reborn a thousand times, dying ten thousand times and being reborn ten thousand times; if they obtained a human body, their bodies would be incomplete.

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