The Old Ways

Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 48 of 96

CHAPTER 49

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

... 'kept back the food of the dogs of shepherds and householders; or beat and killed them.'

... 'These are the souls of those wicked, by whom, in the world, land was measured, and measured false; (8) and many people were rendered unsettled and unproductive, so that they came to want and poverty; (9) and it was ever necessary to contribute heavy taxes.'