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Naraka (Buddhism)
There are sixteen small hells associated with the Eight Fiery Hells, and the types of each are listed below. There are four gates on the four sides of the eight-heated hells, and four small hells outside each gate, which are collectively called the sixteen small hells (sixteen additional hells, four gates of jigoku, and sub jigoku). When combined with the eight hot jigoku, the total number of jigoku is one hundred and thirty-six. In addition to the eight central eight-heat jigoku, sentient beings who have met the more specific conditions to fall into the central jigoku also fall into the smaller jigoku.

For example, in the case of the small hells in the "Equal Life Hells," where those who have killed animals and birds fall into, there are small hells with conditions such as "those who have killed birds and deer" and "those who have killed animals without permission in their lifetime.

In the case of "Shimon Jigoku," another name for the sixteen small jigoku, there are only four types of small jigoku, and each gate is lined with all types, which are located in four directions, making a total of sixteen 4 x 4 jigoku. Its contents are:

1. Tou (fire + Tang)," in which people are forced to walk through knee-deep in hot ashes. 2. The "shifunzou," where one is submerged in a river of feces, urine, and mud and eaten by the insects that nest there. 3. A "sword-edged road," a road lined with countless swords with their blades erected; a "sword-leaf forest," a forest with blade leaves; and an "iron-stick forest," where one is forced to climb up and down trees with countless swords. 4. The "Rekka-zou," which is dropped into a river of boiling gray water.

The eight cold prisons are also said to have sixteen different types of hells.

Each of the eight cold jigoku is said to have 16 small jigoku, but specific details have not been handed down.

Killing, stealing, Invisible, drinking, Mogo, Jaken, Jikai human prisoners, killing arhat-parents (saint).

The lowest level of hell.

Significance and explanation
The article makes a connection between the Number World Bed Room and "Naraka", a Buddhist term that is basically the Buddhism equivalent of Hell or purgatory. A being is usually born in Naraka as a result of karma, which may relate to how the Number World Toriningen must be stabbed in order to enter Mini Hell, where a ghost of Madotsuki resides.

The Eight Fiery Hells appears to relate to the eight closets found in the Bed Room. There are also four gates on the four sides of the Eight Fiery Hells, which is similar to how there are four closets (gates) in the four cardinal directions of Mini Hell. The text also mentions an "Equal Life Hell" in which people who have killed birds and animals fall into, which may reference the Toriningen's bird-like appearance.