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FARGARD XXI.
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7 (27). Rich in seed, in milk?, in fat, in marrow, and in offspring. I shall bring to thee a thousand pure springs, running towards the pastures that give food to the child.
III b. 8 (30). "As the sea Vouru-kasha is the gathering place of the waters, rising up and going down, up the aerial way and down the earth, down the earth and up the aerial way :
•Thus rise up and roll along ! thou in whose rising and growing Ahura Mazda made the earth.
9 (31). Up! rise up, thou Moon, that dost keep in thee the seed of the bull : ;
Rise up above Hara Berezaiti, and produce light for the world (and mayst thou (O man l] rise up there, if thou art to abide in Garô-nmânem), along the path made by Mazda, along the way made by the gods, the watery way they opened.
10 (32). 'And the Holy Word shall keep away the evil : Of thee (O child !] I will cleanse the birth and growth; of thee [O woman !] I will make the body and the strength pure; I make thee rich in children and rich in milk;
11 (32). 'Rich in seed, in milk, in fat, in marrow, and in offspring. I shall bring to thee a thousand pure springs, running towards the pastures that give food to the child.
III c. 12 (32). 'As the sea Vouru-kasha is the gathering place
There are, in the text, two words for milk,' the one referring to the milk of women, the other to the milk of cows.
When the primeval bull died, 'what was bright and strong in his seed was brought to the sphere of the moon, and when it was cleansed there in the light of the astre, two creatures were shaped with it, a male and a female, from which came two hundred and seventy-two kinds of animals' (Bund. IV, X).
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