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Cakravada

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Cakravada in the east of Jambudvipa there is a mountain known as Cakravada (Iron-Enclosed).

This mountain is dark and deep and receives no light from the sun or the moon.

Here there is a major hell named Avici and another hell named Mahavici.

There is another hell named 'Four-Cornered'.

There is another hell named 'Flying-Sword'.

There is another hell 'named Fire-Arrows'.

There is another hell named 'Pitching-Mountains'.

There is another hell named 'Piercing-Spears'.

There is another hell named 'Iron-Cart'.

There is another hell named 'Iron-Rack'.

There is another hell named 'Iron-Cattle'.

There is another hell named 'Thousand-Knives'.

There is another hell named 'Iron-Mule'.

There is another hell named 'Molten-Copper'.

There is another hell named 'Embrace-Pillar'.

There is another hell named 'Flowing-Fire'.

There is another hell named 'Cultivating-Tongue'.

There is another hell named 'File-Heads'.

There is another hell named 'Scorch-Feet'.

There is another hell named 'Peck-Eyes'.

There is another hell named 'Iron-Shots'.

There is another hell named 'Fight-Quarrel'.

There is another hell named 'Iron-Axe'.

There another hell named 'Much-Hate'."

Source

http://www.ymba.org/books/sutra-bodhisattva-ksitigarbhas-fundamental-vows/chapter-5-names-various-hells