Friends:
Having been in the Great Hells one goes to the Minor Hells!
There are 4 kinds of Minor Hells
around each great Hell:
1: The Cesspool of Excrement & Leech Hell (Milhakupa)
2: The Red Hot Embers Hell (Kukkula)
3: The Razor & Spike Tree Hell (Asipattavana)
4: The Acid River Hell (Nadi)
1: The Cesspool of Excrement & Leech
Hell (Milhakupa)
Those coming out of a great Niraya fall into the excrement
cesspit, where
thousands of leeches with rasping needle-mouths pierce through the
skin,
flesh, bone and suck out their bone-marrow...
2: The Red Hot Embers Hell (Kukkula)
Coming out of the Excrement & Leech Hell one fall into the Red Hot
Embers
Hell, where beings roast crispy dry until they crack like mustard
seeds...
3: The Razor & Spike Tree Hell (Asipattavana)
From the embers, beings see shining green trees with many leaves
and they
run towards them seeking safety. There giant crows, vultures,
dogs, owls
boars, terrifying with beaks and teeth of metal, hunt them down
and eat
their flesh. Yet they do not die from that. The flesh all grows
out again,
the victims rise up, and are hunted down and devoured again and
again...
When the leaves of the trees are stirred by the wind, then they
fall and
like big razor blades cut of nose, ears, arms, & legs of the
crying victims.
When they try to escape by climbing up the trees they are pierced
with
burning thorns 1 foot long...
4: The Acid River Hell (Nadi)
From the forest they plunge into a river of acid. There the
caustic fluid
takes off their skin and bites into the flesh, pungent, sharp &
sour hot...
Those who assail others in battle to destroy others, are later
reborn with
swords for nails, made of iron, ablaze and sharp. Then they cut
each other
to pieces and all suffers a lot...
The warders of hell make the adulterer climb that simbali tree of
metal,
flaming, sharp-pointed and with thorns sixteen finger-lengths
long. There
metal-toothed, huge bodied, blazing fearsome females, embraces him
&
devour his flesh as he is one who stole another's wife...
Torn and lacerated in the Asipattavana forest, men who are
traitors wail
while giant dogs, vultures, owls, and crows devour them...
Those steal others properties repeatedly have to swallow melted
iron balls
and drink molten copper. This pass through and comes hizzing out
below!
Passionate hunters are hunted down & devoured by dogs with
fearsome
iron teeth violently ripping them apart, though they cry & whine
like pigs...
Fishermen who routinely kill beings born in water, such as fish,
go to the
terrible acid river Vetarani, whose running fluid is like blazing
copper...
Whoever, was full of stubborn ignorance, or greedy for bribes,
weeping,
is struck by red-hot hammers like mechanical mountains crush those
who
in this world have caused crushing to other beings in various
ways...
Those breakers of the Dhamma-bridges & those who preached the
wrong
false Way weep, as they are forced to walk a path of sharp razor
blades...
Men who crush lice between their nails are themselves crushed
again and
again between rams as mighty as mountains...
Those who crush any insect are crushed again and again by iron
pestles...
Men who are cruel, exceedingly hateful, always intent on killing,
& happy
by the suffering of others, are reborn as barking mad rakkhasa
demons.
The seeds of absolutely all this suffering are wrongdoing by way
of body,
speech, or mind. One should thus eagerly avoid all even minute
wrongdoing!
These are minor Hells explained by the Teacher of the 3 worlds!
Source (edited extract):
Pańcagatidipani by Ashvaghosa & Saddhammaghosa: 11-12th century
AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pali Text Society. Vol. XI
1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132714
For more on the 136 Hells (Niraya, Naraka):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/n/niraya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Wa ... rbeque.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/I ... uences.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta ... tm#Chapter
XXII Hell - Niraya
The Buddha on the Hells: MN 130 The Divine Messengers. Devaduta
Sutta!
http://www.mettanet.org/tipitaka/2Sutta ... uta-e.html
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