佛說佛名經 28.25

28.25

At that time, inside the southern gate there were five thousand sinners wailing and loudly weeping, crying out words such as these: "What sin have I committed now to enter this place?" Rolling about and casting themselves upon the ground, they refused to advance. A horse-headed rākṣasa, holding an iron hook in hand, struck toward their faces and dragged them into the hell. Once the sinners entered, flying fire came to scorch their bodies; their entire bodies were charred and rotten, skin and flesh separating from one another. Thereupon there were various worms of a thousand kinds that came to drink their blood, pulling and tugging at all their heads so that skin and flesh were torn apart. The jailer yakṣas right then flayed and stripped them, so that bones and flesh were sundered, their excruciating pains of ten thousand sorts. Through a single day and single night, they suffered boundless retribution, dying a thousand deaths and taking a thousand births, dying ten thousand deaths and taking ten thousand births, passing through tens of millions of kalpas with no date of release.