CHAPTER 41

1. I also saw the soul of a man (2) whom they gave excrement and dead refuse and corruption to eat; (3) and the demons ever beat him with stones and axes. 4. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, whose soul suffers so severe a punishment?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked [darwand] man who was at the warm baths which many have frequented, (7) and he carried their bodily refuse and dead matter to water and fire and earth; (8) and the pious went in, and came out wicked [i.e. darwand, impure].