佛說觀佛三昧海經 5.19

5.19

佛告阿難：「云何名十八刀輪地獄？刀輪地獄者：四面刀山，於眾山間積刀如塼，虛空中有八百萬億極大刀輪，隨次而下猶如雨渧。自有眾生，樂苦惱他殺害眾生，命終之時患逆氣病，心悶煩滿心堅如石，即作是願：『得一利刀削此諸患不亦快乎！』是時獄卒頂戴刀輪翳令不現，至罪人所卑言遜辭：『我有利刀能割重病。』罪人歡喜即自念言：『惟此為快。』氣絕命終生刀輪上，如醉象走墮刀山間。是時四山一時俱合，四種刀山割切其身，不自勝持悶絕而死。獄卒羅剎驅蹙罪人令登刀山，未至山頂刀傷足下乃至于心，畏獄卒故匍匐而上。既至山頂，獄卒手執一切刀樹，撲殺罪人，未死之間鐵狗囓心，楚毒百端，鐵蟲唼食肉皆都盡，尋復唱活，脚著鐵輪從空而下，一日一夜六十億生六十億死。如是眾多凡十八種，此人罪故遂更增劇，如四天王壽八千萬歲，罪畢生世墮在畜生，五百世中身供眾口，復五百世受卑賤形，然後乃遇大善知識發菩提心。」

The Buddha told Ānanda: "What is called the eighteen sword-wheel hells? As for the sword-wheel hells: there are sword mountains on all four sides; between the mountains, swords are stacked like bricks. In the sky there are eight hundred trillion enormous sword-wheels, descending in succession like raindrops. There are sentient beings who delight in tormenting others and killing sentient beings. At the time of their death, they suffer from a disease of surging breath, with their hearts stifled, agitated, and full, their hearts hard like stone. They then make this wish: 'If only I could get a sharp sword to carve away these ailments, would that not be pleasant!' At that time, a hell warden carries a sword-wheel upon his head, concealing it so it does not appear, and goes to where the sinful person is, speaking humble and modest words: 'I have a sharp sword that can cut away severe illness.' The sinful person is delighted and thinks to himself: 'Only this would bring relief.' His breath expires and he dies, being born upon the sword-wheel; like a drunken elephant running, he falls into the midst of the sword mountains. At that time, the four mountains close together all at once, and the four kinds of sword mountains slice and sever his body. Unable to bear it, he faints and dies. The rākṣasa hell wardens drive and force the sinful person to climb the sword mountains. Before he reaches the mountain peaks, the swords wound his feet right through to his heart; out of fear of the hell wardens, he crawls upward. Once he reaches the mountain peaks, the hell wardens hold all the sword-trees in their hands and strike the sinful person dead. Before he dies, iron dogs gnaw at his heart, inflicting hundreds of forms of painful poison, and iron worms gnaw and eat his flesh until it is completely gone. Soon after, he is summoned back to life, and with his feet bound to iron wheels, he falls from the sky. In a single day and single night, he undergoes sixty billion births and sixty billion deaths. There are many such kinds, eighteen in total. Because of this person's sins, it becomes even more severe, lasting for eighty million years according to the lifespan of the Four Heavenly Kings. When his punishment is completed, he is reborn in the world, falling among animals, where for five hundred lives his body serves to feed many mouths. For another five hundred lives he receives a lowly form, and only after that does he encounter a great kalyāṇamitra and give rise to bodhicitta."