佛說佛名經 22.25

22.25

Baoda then stepped forward and entered the Hooked-Genitals Hell. Why is it called the Hooked-Genitals Hell? That hell is thirty yojanas in length and breadth. Within it, flowing fire pours out and spreads entirely across the ground; its four walls are just the same. In the middle are countless sinners. The hell-warden yakṣas hold iron hooks in their hands, aim at the genitals of the sinners, and hook them. Fire blazes from the hooks and penetrates upward into their chests and hearts; fire blazes atop their hearts, piercing through both abdomen and back. Because of their retribution for lustful karma, [the flames] transform into women, appearing just as those they had previously seen during their lives. Once the sinners see them, the fire of lust arises and they run toward them. The bodies of those women are made of vajra-iron, blazing with fiery heat. When [the sinners] reach them, they embrace the sinners; upon being embraced, [the sinners'] bodies are crushed to pieces. [The women] then press their mouths to theirs and eat their lips, and their bodies are also devoured. When consumed, they are reborn; once reborn, they are eaten again. The same happens to those women who lust after men: their minds of lust are unsettled, and the fire of lust blazes constantly. Such bitter torment and intense pain are hard to bear. At this time, the multitude of sinners still have no repentance. In a single day and night, they undergo limitless punishment, dying a thousand deaths and being born a thousand times, dying ten thousand deaths and being born ten thousand times, and only after passing through immeasurable hundreds of thousands of myriads of kalpas do they attain release. Due to the residue of their karmic fruit, they are born among animals as filth-dwelling worms. After two hundred thousand lifetimes, they attain birth among humans; for five hundred lifetimes they die in the womb, and for another five hundred lifetimes after being born, their sex cannot be discerned, their eyes are malformed, they are destitute, orphaned, and exposed, their lifespans are short, or sometimes when they have a wife, she is violated by others, or they themselves covet the women of others, unable to restrain themselves, perpetually cutting off their lineage.