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CHAPTER VIII, 3-X, 1.
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angel, as the vegetation was his own, pounded the plants small, and mixed them up with the water which Tistar seized, and Tistar made that water rain down upon the whole earth. 3. On the whole earth plants grew up like hair upon the heads of men. 4. Ten thousand of them grew forth of one special description, for keeping away the ten thousand species of disease which the evil spirit produced for the creatures; and from those ten thousand, the 100,000 species ? of plants have grown forth.
5. From that same germ of plants the tree of all germs 3 was given forth, and grew up in the wideformed ocean, from which the germs of all species of plants ever increased. 6. And near to that tree of all germs the Gôkard tree' was produced, for keeping away deformed (duspad) decrepitude; and the full perfection of the world arose therefrom.
CHAPTER X. o. On the conflict waged with the primeval ox.
1. As it passed awayo, owing to the vegetable principle (kiharak) proceeding from every limb of the ox, fifty and five species of grains and twelve species of medicinal plants grew forth from the earth, and their splendour and strength were the
* See Chap. XXVII, 2.
• Here 120,000 are mentioned, but see Chap. XXVII, 2, and Selections of Zâd-sparam, VIII, 2.
s Or, of all seeds' (see Chap. XVIII, 9). • The white-Hôm tree (see Chaps. XVIII, 1-6, XXVII, 4).
See Chap. IV, 1. See Chaps. XIV, 1, XXVII, 2.
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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 |