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CHAPTER LXVI, I-LXVII, 7.
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it be the days of the Dvâzdah-hômâst it is a good work of a thousand thousand Tanâvars, and when they celebrate it by day it is a good work just like this.
CHAPTER LXVII. 1. The sixty-seventh subject is this, that it is necessary for women to practise great abstinence from committing adultery. 2. For it is declared in revelation, as to every woman who has lain with a strange man, thus: “What is it necessary to call her, and why is the explanation that she is of one nature with all wizards and sinners ?'
3. And in the commentary of the Vendidâd it says “" every woman who consorts with two strange men is the first down upon me, who am Hôrmazd. 4. For if she takes a look into a river of water it will make it diminish, if she takes a look at a tree or shrub the fruit of the trees becomes scanty, and if she speaks a word with a righteous man it will make the glory of the man diminish.” 5. Zaratust enquired of Hôrmazd, “What occurs on her account ?" 6. The creator Hôrmazd spoke thus: “It is necessary to kill her sooner than a biting serpent and similar creatures and wild beasts, because she is more harmful to my creatures.”
7. Therefore, since she is like this, it is necessary for women to keep themselves with great effort, so that they may not become unlawful unto their own
* B29 has' and it is by reason of that fault.' What follows is a free paraphrase of Vend. XVIII, 123-132.
Lp omits these four words. • Lp, B29 add 'and purity.' • Lp, B29 have what is necessary.
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