The Old Ways

Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 80 of 96

Chapter 85. [Adultery]

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

1. Then I saw the soul of a woman, (2) on whose body they construct an iron coating, (3) and they turn back the mouth, and put it back to a hot oven. 4. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this woman?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked woman who was, among the living, the wife of a well-disposed and intelligent man; (7) and she broke her faith to her husband, and slept with a sinful and ill-disposed man.'