The Old Ways

Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 90 of 96

Chapter 95. [Starved her infant, adultery]

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

1. Then I saw the soul of a woman who ever dug a hill with her breasts; (2) and was ever thirsty and hungry. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this woman?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked woman who gave her infant no milk, (6) but left it hungry and thirsty; (7) and herself went with a strange man through a liking for avarice, and a lust for illicit intercourse.'