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.There are also eighteen wardens with heads like raksasas' and mouths like yaksas'.Their sixty-four bulging eyes look like iron balls.Their teeth extend upwards for one hundred and sixty miles.Their teeth emit flames that burn the Avici City, turning the city into molten copper color.On each of the warden's head, there are eight bull heads.Each bull head has eighteen horns.Each horn emits fire that turns into eighteen fire-webs.The fire-webs then turn into large wheel of knives.Positioned closed to each other, the wheels filled up the entire Avici Hell.261+4The tongues of the copper dogs look like iron thorns and extend to the ground.The tongues transform into immeasurable tongues and fill up the entire Avici City.Inside the seven-layers city, there are seven iron pennants.Fire burst out from the top of the pennants like boiling geysers, and fill up the entire Avici City.On the door steps of the four city doors, there are eighteen pots.Boiling molten copper gushes out from the container and fills up the entire Avici City.Inside the city there are eighteen four thousand huge pythons that emit toxic gas and fire.The pythons howl like a thunder and falling iron balls.The sufferings in the city are innumerable.The extreme sufferings are in this city.There are also 5 billion worms, each has eighty four thousand mouths.Fire pours out like rain from their mouths and fill up the entire Avici City.The flames illuminate three million three hundred and sixty thousand miles.The Buddha told Ananda that sentient beings, who killed their parents and insulted their family and relatives to death, will see eighteen golden carriages with precious canopies.These carriages are the transformation of the copper dogs.Additionally, all the fire transforms into beautiful ladies.The offenders become very happy when they see these images.They long to join them.At the dying moments, they feel very cold and seek warmth.The carriages that they are riding burst into flames.At this instant, they die.The beautiful ladies turned into iron axes and chop their bodies.Fire forms on their lower bodies burns like a turning wheel.Instantly, they fall into the Big Avici Hell.Their sufferings begin from the top layer to the bottom layer.The copper dogs bark loudly and maw their bones and marrow.The warden and raksasas poke them with large iron forks.Their whole bodies are on fire.Iron nets and many knives penetrate their pores.The Yama King scolds them loudly, “You ignorant and guilty people, when you were alive you were not filial and respectful to your parents.You were deviant, arrogant, and immoral.Now you are born in the Avici Hell.You were ungrateful and without remorse.Therefore, you deserve these sufferings.” He will then disappear after saying those remarks.265+1Immediately the wardens steer the offenders from the bottom layer to the top layer.They pass through eighty four thousand layers.It took one day and one night to travel through the entire Avici Hell.One day and one night in Avici Hell is equivalent to sixty small kalpas in Jambudvipa (our world).The offenders have a life span of one great kalpa in the Avice Hell.The offenders of the five rebellious acts (patricide, matricide, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, and destroying the harmony of the sangha) have no remorse in carrying out those five rebellious acts.Because of these offenses, when they die there are eighteen types of hot wind that slice their bodies like sharp knives.Since they feel very hot, they long for shelter under the shade of a big tree.At the moment of this thought, the eighty four thousand evil jungles of swords in the Avici Hell transform into precious trees full of fruits.The fire transforms into lotus flowers.When the offenders see this, they say their wishes have come true.They quickly sit on top of the lotus flowers.Soon after that, worms with iron beaks appear from the flowers and penetrate their bones, marrow, hearts, and brains.Countless swords and knives slice their flesh and bones from the top.They also encounter eighteen sufferings such as fiery carriage and burning stoves.They suffer repeatedly in the fire, molten copper, and swords.The offenders of the five rebellious acts suffer these offenses for five entire kalpas.There are sentient beings who cause others to break or not uphold the precepts.They slander others and they have deviant views.They do not recognize the law of cause and effect.They influence others to stop their cultivation.They damaged the Buddhas of the ten directions.They steal from the temples.They do feel remorseful of their evil deeds.When they are about to die, the winds of knives slice their bodies.They are agitated because they feel like they are being beaten harshly.Their minds are out of control and filled with wild imagination.They view all the family members in the household as filthy.They see feces and urine with unbearable stench overflowing the house
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