asipattravana

Tibetan: རལ་གྲིའི་ལོ་མ།
Tibetan (Wylie): ral gri’i lo ma
Tibetan (phonetics): ral tri lo ma
English term: Leaves of Swords
English definition: The second of the third of the four Neighboring Hells. Because their suffering is similar the “Path of Razors”, “Leaves of Swords”, and “Śālmalī” are grouped as one. This neighboring hell is described with different terms and descriptions: 1) Road of Razon Blades, where hell beings lose their skin, flesh and blood when they put their feet on it; 2) Forest with Sword-Leaves (where these sword-leaves, when falling, cut up the major and minor limbs, which are devoured by the Śyāmaśabala [“black-spotted”] dogs; and 3) Forest of Iron Thoms, where hell beings climb up the trees, the thorns turn downwards; when they descend, they turn upwards; the birds, iron-beaked, pull out and eat the eyes of hell beings.