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Roruva2

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一处地狱,众生因诽谤正法、悭吝或邪淫而堕入此处,有时分为烈焰与毒烟两重地狱。

A hell (niraya). Beings were presumably born there as a result of casting aspersions on the Dhamma (S.i.30), miserliness (e.g., J.iii.299), or adultery (J.vi.237)

Sometimes (J.v.266) two Roruvas are mentioned which the scholiast (J.v.271) explains as being Jālaroruva and Dhūmaroruva; in the first beings have red-hot flames blown into their bodies, and in the second, noxious gases (khāradhūma).

Buddhaghosa says (SA.i.64) that Jālaroruva is another name for Avīci, and that the hell (niraya) is so called because beings shout while being burnt there (aggimhi jalante punappunaṃ ravanti).

SN 3.20

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