Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 82 of 96
Chapter 87. [Infant neglect]
tr. Martin Haug and E. W. West (1872)
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1. Then I saw the soul of a woman (2) who ever scraped her own body and face with an iron comb, (3) and ever dug an iron hill with her breasts. 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, in the world, committed a crime, (7) and through a desire for wealth, gave no milk to her own infant. (8) And now she ever makes an outcry thus: "Here let me dig into this hill, that I may give milk to that infant." (9) Yet until the reestablishment of the world [Frashegird], she does not reach the infant.'