佛說觀佛三昧海經 5.21

5.21

佛告阿難：「云何名火車地獄？火車地獄者：一一銅鑊縱廣正等四十由旬，滿中盛火，下有十二輪，上有九十四火輪。自有眾生為佛弟子，及事梵天九十六種，出家徒眾及在家者，誑惑邪命諂曲作惡。如此罪人欲命終時，風大先動身冷如氷，即作是念：『何時當得大猛火聚，入中坐者永除冷病？』作是念已，獄卒羅剎化作火車如金蓮華，獄卒在上如童男像，手執白拂鼓舞而至。罪人見已心生愛著：『如此金華光色顯赫，照我令熱必除寒冷，若得坐上快不可言。』作是語已氣絕命終，載火車上支節火然，墮火聚中身體燋散。獄卒唱活應聲還活，火車轢身凡十八返，身碎如塵，天雨沸銅遍灑身體即便還活。如是往返，上至湯際下墮鑊中，火車所轢一日一夜，九十億死九十億生。此人罪畢，生貧賤家為人所使，繫屬於他不得自在，償利養畢爾乃得脫，由前出家善心功德，遇善知識為其說法，心開意解成阿羅漢。」

The Buddha told Ānanda: "What is called the fire-chariot hell? As for the fire-chariot hell: each copper cauldron is precisely forty yojanas in length and breadth, filled with raging fire, having twelve wheels below and ninety-four fire-wheels above. There are sentient beings who, having become disciples of the Buddha, or followers of Brahmā and the ninety-six heterodox ways, whether among the monastic assemblies or the householders, deceive others with wrong livelihoods, behaving crookedly and committing evil. When such a sinful person is about to die, the wind element stirs first, and his body becomes cold as ice. He then thinks: 'When will I be able to obtain a great, raging mass of fire, so that by entering and sitting within it, I may permanently eliminate this cold illness?' Having formed this thought, the rākṣasa hell wardens transform a fire-chariot into the likeness of a golden lotus flower, with a hell warden atop it appearing in the form of a young boy, holding a white whisk, dancing as he approaches. When the sinful person sees this, affection and attachment arise in his mind: 'Such a golden flower with radiant and glorious colors will illuminate me and make me warm, surely banishing the cold; if I could sit atop it, the joy would be unspeakable.' Having spoken these words, his breath expires and he dies. Loaded onto the fire-chariot, his limbs catch fire, and falling into the mass of fire, his body is scorched and disintegrates. The hell wardens summon him back to life, and at their call he revives immediately. The fire-chariot runs over his body eighteen times in total, shattering his body like dust; from the sky, boiling copper rains down, sprinkling over his body, whereupon he immediately revives. Going back and forth like this, rising up to the edge of the boiling broth and falling down into the cauldron, run over by the fire-chariot, in a single day and single night he undergoes ninety billion deaths and ninety billion births. When this person's sin is exhausted, he is born into an impoverished and lowly family, enslaved by others, bound to others without freedom. Only when he has finished repaying his past gains and support is he then liberated. Due to the meritorious virtue of his former wholesome mind when leaving the household life, he encounters a kalyāṇamitra who preaches the Dharma for him; his mind opens in understanding, and he becomes an arhat."