Māratajjanīyasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Majjhimanikāya · Vol. 12 · Section 565

[565] "Now, Evil One, that Great Hell has three names: 'Pertaining to the Six Bases of Contact' (Chaphassāyatanika), 'Struck Through with Spikes' (Saṅkusamāhata), and 'To Be Felt Each for Oneself' (Paccattavedanīya). Then, Evil One, the wardens of hell approached me and said this: 'When, good sir, spike meets spike in your heart, then you shall know: "A thousand years have I been roasting in hell."' I, Evil One, roasted in that Great Hell for many years, for many hundreds of years, for many thousands of years; and for ten thousand years I roasted in the annex (ussada) of that very Great Hell, experiencing the feeling called emergence (vuṭṭhānavedanā). My body, Evil One, was of such a form as that of a human being; my head was of such a form as that of a fish."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.