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DÂDISTÂN-I DÎNÎK.
CHAPTER XX. 1. The nineteenth question is that you ask thus : To what place do the righteous and wicked' go?
2. The reply is this, that it is thus said that the souls of those passed away and of the dead? are three nights on earth; and the first night satisfaction comes to them from their good thoughts and vexation from their evil thoughts, the second night come pleasure from their good words and discomfort and punishment 3 from their evil words, and the third night come exaltation from thcir good deeds and punishment from their evil deeds 4. 3. And that third night, in the dawn, they go to the place of account on Albürzb; the account being rendered they proceed to the bridges, and he who is righteous
As K35 inserts the relative i here, some such phrase as 'who are dead' has probably dropped out of the Pahlavi text.
The Parsi books speak of the righteous dead as departed,' a term very rarely applied to the wicked (see Chap. XXXII, 4), who are nearly always said 'to die;' the latter verb is, however, occasionally used when speaking of the righteous. This distinction is made even in the Huzvâris logograms, which express the death of the righteous by forms allied to Chald. 19 he passed over, and the death of the wicked by forms allied to Chald.no he died.' 3 So in all MSS., but the punishment' seems superfluous here.
• The Avesta merely states that the soul remains three nights near the body, chanting a particular hymn, and experiencing as much pleasure or uneasiness as it had in the world (see Hn. II, 3-17, III, 3-16); and much the same account is given in AV. IV, 9-14, XVII, 2-9, Mkh. II, 114, 158–160.
The mountain chain which is supposed to surround the world (see Bd. XII, 3); the Av. Hara-berezaiti.
• The Kinvad bridge (see Chap. XXI, 2–7), which is said to
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