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provided with a tail, which are ten. 45. And by them these ten worldly creations, that is, the sky, water, earth, vegetation, animals, metals, wind, light, fire, and mankind, are corrupted with all this vileness; and from them calamity, captivity, disease, death, and other evils and corruptions ever come to water, vegetation, and the other creations which exist in the world, owing to the fiendishness of those ten. 46. They whom I have enumerated are furnished with the assistance and crafty (afzârhômand) nature of Aharman.
47. Regarding the cold, dry, stony, and dark interior of mysterious (tarik den afrag-pêdâk) hell it says, that the darkness is fit to grasp with the hand", and the stench is fit to cut with a knife; and if they inflict the punishment of a thousand men within a single span, they (the men) think in this way, that they are alone; and the loneliness is worse than its punishment 2. 48. And its connection (band) is with the seven planets, be it through much cold like Saturn 3 (Kêvân), be it through much heat like Aharman; and their food is brimstone (gandak), and of succulents the lizard (vazagh), and other evil and wretchedness (patyân).]
Compare Mkh. VII, 31: and always their darkness is suchlike as though it be possible to grasp with the hand.'
? Compare Arda-Vîrâf-nâmak (LIV, 5-8): 'As close as the ear to the eye, and as many as the hairs on the mane of a horse, so close and many in number, the souls of the wicked stand, but they see not, and hear no sound, one from the other; every one thinks thus, “I am alone." !
Or, with more cold than Saturn.'
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