佛說觀佛三昧海經 5.32

5.32

佛告阿難：「云何名十八飲銅地獄？飲銅地獄者：千二百種雜色銅車，一銅車上六千銅丸。自有眾生，慳貪嫉妬邪見惡說，不施父母、妻子、眷屬及與一切，心生慳嫉，見他得利如箭入心。如是罪人欲命終時，多病消瘦昏言囈語，口中自說：『欲得果食。』作是語時，獄卒羅剎化己銅車滿車載果至罪人所，罪人得已心生歡喜，即作念言：『得此美果食不知厭，甚適我願。』歡喜踊躍，氣絕命終。未經幾時生銅車上，不久即往生銅山間，銅車轢頸，獄卒羅剎以鉗，㭦口飲以烊銅，飲烊銅已迷悶躄地，唱言：『飢飢。』尋時獄卒擘口令開，以銅鐵丸置其口中，吞十八丸節節火然，東西馳走經於一日，爾乃命終。獄卒唱言：『汝前身時諂諛邪見，慳貪嫉妬，以是因緣受鐵丸報；或曾出家毀犯輕戒，久不悔過虛食信施，以此因緣食諸鐵丸。』此人罪報億千萬歲不識水穀，受罪畢已還生人中，五百世中言語𡄓吃不自辯了，以宿習故，食後噉炭及噉土塊，過是以後，遇善知識發菩提心。」

The Buddha said to Ānanda: "What is called the Eighteen Drinking-Copper Hells? As for the Drinking-Copper Hells: there are one thousand two hundred kinds of variegated copper carts, and upon each copper cart are six thousand copper pellets. There are sentient beings who are stingy, greedy, jealous, and envious, holding wrong views and speaking evil words, who do not give to their parents, wives, children, relatives, or anyone else, their minds giving rise to stinginess and jealousy; seeing others gain benefit is like an arrow piercing their hearts. When such a sinner is about to die, they are afflicted with many illnesses and emaciated, speaking deliriously in confusion, saying with their own mouth: 'I want to have fruit to eat.' While they are speaking these words, the hell-warden rākṣasas transform their own copper carts, filling the carts with fruit, and come to the sinner's place. When the sinner receives it, joy arises in their heart, and they immediately form this thought: 'Having obtained these delicious fruits, I will eat them insatiably; this suits my wish exceedingly well.' Leaping with joy, their breath ceases and their life ends. Before long, they are born upon a copper cart, and shortly thereafter go on to be born amidst copper mountains. The copper carts crush their necks; the hell-warden rākṣasas use tongs to pry open their mouths and force them to drink molten copper. Having drunk the molten copper, they faint and collapse to the ground, crying out: 'Hungry! Hungry!' Immediately, the wardens tear their mouths open and place copper and iron pellets into their mouths; swallowing eighteen pellets, fire blazes at every joint. Running wildly east and west for the span of a day, only then do they die. The wardens cry out: 'In your former life, you flattered, held wrong views, and were stingy, greedy, jealous, and envious; by this cause and condition you receive the retribution of iron pellets. Or you once left the household life, violated minor precepts, failed to repent for a long time, and consumed in vain the offerings of the faithful; by this cause and condition you eat these iron pellets.' The sinner, for billions of years in retribution, knows neither water nor grain. When the suffering of their retribution is complete, they are reborn among humans; for five hundred lifetimes they stammer and stutter, unable to articulate clearly. Because of past habituation, after eating they chew on charcoal and eat clumps of dirt. After this has passed, they meet a kalyāṇamitra and give rise to the bodhicitta."