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CHAPTER XLI, 10–XLII, 5.
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plants a tree anew, and is eating the fruit of it every year, even so much is that good work increasing every year. 22. If she shall live ten years, or if a hundred years, even so long it is becoming every year much more? 23. If they provide it after her lifetime, that which would be the increase departs ; and in her lifetime, also, that occurs which every one, who has done a duty on his own account, has seen, that the thing itself which others accomplish after his lifetime is very different; so that she should provide it with her own hands, not after her decease (vafât).
CHAPTER XLII. 1. The forty-second subject is this, that it is necessary to practise strict abstinence from that sin which affects accusers 2. That would be when any one slanders (buhtânad), or any one commits a rape on the wife of some one, or causes a woman to occupy a separate bed from her own husband.
3. These are sins for which there is no retribution, except when thou beggest forgiveness of that person whom thy sin has assailed. 4. Afterwards, they keep back the soul, at the Kinvad bridge, till the time when its antagonist arrives and exacts justice from it; then it obtains release.
5. Every time that any one applies a falsehood or a slander to some person, so that people are after
? Lp, B29 have ‘it is proceeding every year to a head!'
* Any sin that injures another party who, thereupon, becomes an accuser and must be satisfied, by atonement, before the sin can be expiated (see Sls. VIII, 1 n).
3 Lp, B29 have applies falsehood and slander to any one.' * See Chap. LXIII, 11. Lp omits these twelve words. [24]
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