The Old Ways

Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 31 of 96

CHAPTER 30

tr. Martin Haug and E. W. West (1872)

1. I also saw the soul of a man (2) whose limbs they ever break and separate, one from the other. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked man who made unlawfully much slaughter of cattle and sheep and other quadrupeds.'