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Mainyo-i-Khard 6

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The sage asked the spirit of wisdom

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thus: 'Which land is the unhappier?'

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The spirit of wisdom answered

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thus: 'That land is the more afflicted, in which hell is formed.

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The second, when they slay in it a righteous man who is innocent.

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The third, for whose sake the demons and fiends work.

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The fourth, in which they construct an idol-temple.

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The fifth, when a wicked man, who is an evil-doer, makes an abode in it.

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The sixth, when the interment of a corpse is performed below.

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The seventh, in which a noxious creature has a burrow.

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The eighth, when from the possession of the good it comes into the possession of the bad.

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The ninth, when they make desolate that which was populous.

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And the tenth, in which they make lamentation and weeping.'

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Pahlavi Texts, Part III: Dînâ-î Maînôg-î Khirad, Sikand-gûmânîk Vigâr, Sad Dar, translated by E. W. West. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 24, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. · Source ↗

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