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佛說佛名經 26.16

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26.16

"For the other hells: we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Sword Mountains and Blade Trees, where bodies and heads fall off; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Boiling Cauldrons and Furnace Coals, being burned and cooked; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Iron Beds and Copper Pillars, being scorched; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Sword Wheels and Fire Chariots, being cleaved and crushed; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Tongue-Pulling and Plow-Furrowing, with acute agony; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Swallowing Iron Pellets and Pouring Molten Copper into the Mouth, with the five viscera melting away; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Iron Mortars and Iron Mills, with flesh and bones ground to dust; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of the Black Rope and Iron Nets, with limbs and joints separated; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of the Ash River and Boiling Excrement, being tormented and suffocated; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Salt Water and Cold Water, naked and freezing with cracked skin; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Tigers, Wolves, Hawks, and Hounds, mutually harming one another; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Weapons and Cleaving, mutually striking, snatching, hacking, and stabbing; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Fire Pits, being roasted and charred; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Crashing Boulders, with skeletons shattered; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Gathering Black Ears, being flayed and dismembered; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of the Dark Mountain of Flesh, being chopped and minced; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Sawing and Nailing the Body, being severed and pierced; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Iron Staffs and Hanging Upside Down, being slaughtered and carved; we repent of the retributions in the Hell of Scorching Heat and Wailing, with vexation and distress; we repent of the retributions between the Greater and Lesser Cakravāḍa Mountains, in the long night of darkness without knowing the three luminaries. In the Apapa Hell, the Aṭaṭa Hell, the Ahaha Hell, the Hahava Hell, and all such eight cold and eight hot hells, each hell also has eighty-four thousand subsidiary compartment hells as its retinue; the sinful suffering, roasting, boiling, and acute agony therein—flaying the skin, carving the flesh, scraping the bones, striking the marrow, pulling out the intestines, and plucking out the lungs—are measureless sufferings that can neither be heard nor spoken of.

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