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fiend, with thinnest garment on; he can strive against the wicked tyrant and smite him on the head; he can strive against the ungodly fasting Ashemaogha?
IV b. 49 (bis). On the very first time when that deed ? has been done, without waiting until it is done again,
50 (143). down there : the pain for that deed shall be as hard as any in this world: even as if one should cut off the limbs from his perishable body with knives of brass, or still worse;
51 (146). down there the pain for that deed shall be as hard as any in this world: even as if one should nail * his perishable body with nails of brass, or still worse;
52 (149). down there the pain for that deed shall be as hard as any in this world: even as if one should by force throw his perishable body headlong down a precipice a hundred times the height of a man, or still worse;
53 (152). down there the pain for that deed shall be as hard as any in this world: even as if one should by force impales his perishable body, or still worse.
54 (154). Down there the pain for his deed shall be as hard as any in this world: to wit, the deed of
1 The Commentary has : 'like Mazdak, son of Båmdât,' the communistic heresiarch who flourished under Kobâd (488-531) and was put to death under Noshirvan. * The taking of a false oath. Cf. § 46.
3 In hell. * Doubtful.
6 Doubtful.
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