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CHAPTER XIII, 12-XIV, 2.
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some was the sea Kyânsih ?, such as is in Sagastân; at first, noxious creatures, snakes, and lizards (vazagh) were not in it, and the water was sweeter than in any of the other seas; later (da digar) it became salt; at the closest, on account of the stench, it is not possible to go so near as one league, so very great are the stench and saltness through the violence of the hot wind. 17. When the renovation of the universe occurs it will again become sweet 3.
CHAPTER XIV. 1. On the nature of the five classes of animals (gôspend) it says in revelation, that, when the primeval ox passed away“, there where the marrow came out grain grew up of fifty and five species, and twelve o species of medicinal plants grew; as it says, that out of the marrow is every separate creature, every single thing whose lodgment is in the marrow? 2. From the horns arose peas (migûk),
Comparing nîstûm with Pers. nist, healthy.' * The Av. Kūsu of Vend. XIX, 18, and Zamyâd Yt. 66, 92 (see also Chaps. XX, 34, and XXI, 7). A brackish lake and swamp now called Hâman, 'the desert,' or Zarah,' the sea,' and which formerly contained fresher water than it does now.
The MSS. here add the first sentence of Chap. XX, and there is every reason to believe that Chaps. XX-XXII originally occupied this position, between XIII and XIV, (see the list of the contents of TD in the Introduction.)
* See Chaps. IV, 1, and X, 1.
• All MSS. have lakhvâr, 'again, but this is probably a blunder for lâlâ, 'up'
o K20 has 'fifteen' here, but 'twelve' in Chaps. X, 1, and XXVII, 2.
? K20 has of every single thing the lodgment is in the marrow.'
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