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changing into duality, and persecution, contention, and mingling of high and low became manifest.
CHAPTER IV. 1. This also is said, that when the primeval ox! passed away it fell to the right hand, and Gâyômard afterwards, when he passed away, to the left hand. 2. Gôsûrvan”, as the soul of the primeval ox came out from the body of the ox, stood up before the ox and cried to Adharmazd, as much as a thousand men when they sustain a cry at one time, thus :
With whom is the guardianship of the creatures left by thee, when ruin has broken into the earth, and vegetation is withered, and water is troubled ? Where is the mans of whom it was said by thee thus: I will produce him, so that he may preach carefulness ?'
3. And Adharmazd spoke thus : You are made illo, O Gôsürvan! you have the illness which the evil spirit brought on ; if it were proper to produce that man in this earth at this time, the evil spirit would not have been oppressive in it.'
1 Literally, the sole-created ox' from whom all the animals and some plants are supposed to have proceeded (see Chaps. X and XIV), as mankind proceeded from Gâyômard. It is the ox of the primitive creation, mentioned in Chap. III, 14, 18.
? The spiritual representative of the primeval ox, called Geusurvå, 'soul of the bull,' in the Avesta, of which name Gôsûrvan is a corruption. The complaint of Gôsûrvan is recorded in the Gâthas, the oldest part of the Avesta (see Yas. XXIX).
Referring to Zaratůst. • In K20, You are ill.'
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| SR No. | 007671 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1895 |
| Total Pages | 2695 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |