The Chinvat Bridge (Avestan: Chinvato Peretu, 'Bridge of the Separator') is the post-mortem crossing described in the Videvdad (19.29-32) and the Hadokht Nask, where each soul's fate is determined on the dawn of the fourth day after death. The soul encounters Daena, its own conscience in feminine form โ beautiful for the righteous (ashavan), hideous for the wicked (dregvant). Three yazatas โ Mithra, Sraosha, and Rashnu (who holds the scales of justice) โ weigh the soul's deeds. For the ashavan, the bridge widens to nine javelin-lengths; for the dregvant, it narrows to a razor's edge, and they fall into the Duzakh (House of the Lie). The bridge does not impose an external verdict but reveals what the soul has already made of itself through its Humata, Hukhta, and Hvarshta.