The Old Ways

Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 55 of 96

Chapter 60.

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

1. I also saw the soul of a man (2) whose body remains set into a brazen cauldron; and they ever cook it. (3) One foot, which is the right one, remained outside the cauldron. 4. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked man who, among the living, lustfully and improperly, went much out to married women; (7) and his whole body became sinful. (8) But that right foot, the frog and ant, snake and scorpion, and other noxious creatures (khrafstars) were much smitten and killed and destroyed.'