Chapter 72. [Violating menstruation taboo]

1. I also saw the souls of women, by whom their own menstrual discharge was ever devoured. 2. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by the body of these, whose souls suffer so severe a punishment?' 3. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (4) thus: 'These are the souls of those women who heeded not their menstruation, (5) and injured water and fire and the earth of Spandarmad and Hordad and Amurdad, (6) and looked upon the sky and the sun and the moon, (7) and injured cattle and sheep with their menstruation, (8) and kept the pious man polluted.'