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The **Sri Sutra Kritanga Sutra** states that the body is cut into pieces like a piece of cloth with weapons, and they are destroyed piece by piece. (8)
**Commentary:** In hell, there is a place of fire without smoke, like a cremation ground. The word "name" is used here in the sense of possibility. This indicates that there are places of torture in hell. Having attained this smokeless fiery place, the beings of hell are tormented with grief and cry out in sorrow. The hell guardians lower their heads and cut their bodies into pieces with iron weapons.
**Commentary:** In that hell, the beings with their bodies torn apart are hung upside down, and they are eaten by birds with iron beaks. The land of hell is called **Sanjeevani**, because even after suffering death-like pain, the beings do not die there because their lifespan remains. The lifespan of those who go to that hell is very long. The sinful beings are constantly killed and injured there.
**Commentary:** In that hell, the beings are hung upside down from pillars, with their arms above and their heads below, like corpses. Their bodies are torn apart, and their skin is removed. These hanging beings are eaten by crows and vultures with iron beaks. The hell guardians cut them into pieces, or they cut each other into pieces. They are boiled and fainted. Even though they experience extreme pain, they do not die. Therefore, the land of hell is called **Sanjeevani**, like a life-giving medicine, because a being who goes to hell, even if cut into pieces, does not die because his lifespan remains. The lifespan of hell is said to be a maximum of thirty-three oceans. This hell is of long duration. The sinful beings who go there are killed and injured by maces and other weapons. They want to die from the pain of hell, but even after being crushed, they do not die. Their bodies and their pieces merge together like mercury. (332)