Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 23 of 96
CHAPTER 22
tr. Martin Haug and E. W. West (1872)
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1. I also saw the soul of a man, (2) into whose jaws they ever pour the impurity and menstrual discharge of women, (3) and he ever cooked and ate his own seemly child. 4. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, whose soul suffers such a punishment?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked man who, in the world, had intercourse with a menstruous woman; (7) and every single time, it is a sin of fifteen and a half Tanapuhrs.'