佛說佛名經 20.31

20.31

At that time, within the eastern gate there were countless sinners who, seeing it from afar, wept bitterly and wailed, casting their whole bodies onto the ground and crying out these words: 'For what sin of mine have I now entered into this place?' The wardens and yakṣas, holding great axes in their hands, aimed at their heads and chopped them, then bound their bodies with iron chains, while fierce fires burned their forms and flying halberds pierced them indiscriminately. Then the sinners fell at every step until they reached beneath the rack. The wardens and yakṣas seized and dragged the sinners, and with large iron saws dismembered them joint by joint, blood flowing everywhere, the pain and suffering of myriad kinds. Then there appeared the shapes of sheep, cattle, donkeys, horses, insects, birds, and miscellaneous kinds of beasts, which came to drink their blood and eat their flesh; for these beasts all demanded from the sinners their original life and their original flesh. At that time, the sinners had no words to reply, and all the beasts gnawed and bit them. The agony and bitter torment were unbearable; the sinners groaned and howled, blood streaming from their mouths and eyes, their weeping and sobbing resounding upward to the heavens. Such bitter torments were suffered unboundedly day and night, dying a thousand times and being reborn a thousand times, dying ten thousand times and being reborn ten thousand times, through thousands of myriads of kalpas without any time of release. If they should afterward be released, they shall fall into the animal realm, and for hundreds of billions of thousands of lifetimes be eaten by their enemies.