Book of Arda Viraf

However, the best-known Zoroastrian text to describe hell in detail is the Book of Arda Viraf.

The Persian poem is based on the Middle Persian Book of Arda Viraf.

The Arda Viraf Namak (middle Persian, 'The Book of Arda Viraf')

In Book of Arda Viraf 23.6-8, the righteous Viraz sees a man punished in hell "for consuming Hordad and Amurdad while unlawfully chattering while he chewed."

According to later Zoroastrian legend (Denkard and the Book of Arda Viraf), many sacred texts were lost when Alexander the Great's troops invaded Persepolis and subsequently destroyed the royal library there.

As an example, the use of the name "Iran" for Achaemenids in the Middle Persian book of Arda Viraf refers to the invasion of Iran by Alexander the Great in 330 BC.

In the Book of Arda Viraf 5.10, the narrator-the 'righteous Viraf'-is taken by Sarosh and Adar to see "the reality of God and the archangels, and the non-reality of Ahriman and the demons."