The Old Ways

Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 57 of 96

Chapter 62.

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

1. I also saw the soul of a woman (2) who ever gnashed her own bosom and breasts with an iron comb. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, whose soul suffers so severe a punishment?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked woman who, in the world, despised her husband and master (or guardian,) and became and remained vile; (6) being also herself untrue to him, and acted improperly with other men.'