佛說觀佛三昧海經 5.23

5.23

佛告阿難：「云何名十八鑊湯地獄？鑊湯地獄者，有十八鑊，一一鑊縱廣正等四十由旬，七重鐵網滿中沸鑊，五百羅剎鼓大石炭燒其銅鑊。此石火焰焰焰相承，經六十日火不可滅，閻浮提日滿十二萬歲，如是鑊沸上湧如星，化成火輪還入鑊中。自有眾生毀佛禁戒，殺生祠祀，為噉肉故，焚燒山野傷害眾生，生燖眾生以火焚燒。如此罪人，欲命終時身心煩悶，失大小便不自禁制，或熱如湯或冷如氷，即作是念：『得大溫水入中沐浴不亦樂乎！』獄卒羅剎化作僮僕，手擎湯瓫至罪人所，罪人心喜愛樂此瓫，氣絕命終生鑊湯中，速疾消爛惟餘骨在，鐵叉摷出，鐵狗嗗之嘔吐在地，尋復還活。獄卒驅蹙還令入鑊，畏鑊熱故攀劍樹上，骨肉斷壞落鑊湯中。殺生罪故，一日一夜恒河沙死恒河沙生，罪畢乃出生畜生中，䐗羊鷄狗短命之處，無不經歷。如是受身八千萬歲，命終之後還生人中，受二種報：一者多病，二者短命。短命多病以為眷屬，過算數劫遇善知識，受持五戒行六波羅蜜。」

The Buddha said to Ānanda: "What is meant by the eighteen caldron hells? As for the caldron hells, there are eighteen caldrons, each caldron being exactly forty yojanas in length and breadth. Filled with boiling [liquids], each caldron is enclosed by sevenfold iron nets. Five hundred rākṣasas stoke great coal fires to heat the copper caldrons. This rock fire blazes flame upon flame, unbroken and impossible to extinguish for sixty days—equal to fully one hundred and twenty thousand years of days in Jambudvīpa. Thus the caldrons boil over, shooting upward like stars, turning into fiery wheels that fall back into the caldrons. There are sentient beings who transgress the Buddha's prohibitive precepts, who kill living beings for sacrificial offerings, or who, for the sake of eating meat, burn mountains and fields, harming living beings, or scald living beings alive and burn them with fire. When such sinners are about to die, they become agitated and vexed in body and mind, losing control of their bladder and bowels; they feel now hot as boiling water, now cold as ice, and at once have this thought: 'If only I could get warm water to bathe in, would that not be joyful?' The rākṣasa hell-wardens transform themselves into young servants holding bathing basins, and go to the sinner's place. The sinner is delighted and covets the basin; with breath cut off, life ends, and he is born into the boiling caldron. He quickly melts and rots away, leaving only bones. Iron forks dredge him out; iron dogs devour him, vomit him onto the ground, and thereupon he revives. The hell-wardens drive and press him to re-enter the caldron; terrified of the caldron's heat, he climbs the sword-trees, where his flesh and bones are cut to pieces and fall back into the boiling caldron. Because of the sin of killing living beings, in a single day and night he dies as many times as the sands of the Ganges, and is born as many times as the sands of the Ganges. When his sins are ended, he is born among animals, in the short-lived forms of swine, sheep, fowl, and dogs, passing through every one. Having received such forms for eighty million years, when his life ends, he is reborn among humans, receiving two kinds of retribution: first, frequent illness; second, a short lifespan. A short lifespan and frequent illness will be his constant companions. After countless kalpas, he encounters a kalyāṇamitra, receives and upholds the five precepts, and practices the six pāramitās."