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plants, and a hundred thousand species among ordinary plants have grown from all these seeds of the tree opposed to harm1, the many-seeded, which has grown in the wide-formed ocean. 3. When the seeds of all these plants, with those from the primeval ox, have arisen upon it, every year the bird' strips that tree and mingles all the seeds in the water; Tistar seizes them with the rain-water and rains them on to all regions. 4. Near to that tree the white Hôm, the healing and undefiled, has grown at the source of the water of Arêdvivsûr 3; every one who eats it becomes immortal, and they call it the Gôkard tree, as it is said that Hôm is expelling death; also in the renovation of the universe they prepare its immortality therefrom; and it is the chief of plants".
5. These are as many genera of plants as exist: trees and shrubs, fruit-trees, corn, flowers, aromatic herbs, salads, spices, grass, wild plants, medicinal
1 See Chaps. IX, 5, XVIII, 9, XXIX, 5.
The apparently contradictory account in Chap. IX, 2, refers only to the first production of material plants from their spiritual or ideal representative. The bird here mentioned is Kamrôs (see Chaps. XIX, 15, XXIV, 29), as appears from the following passage (Mkh. LXII, 40-42): And the bird Kamrôs for ever sits in that vicinity; and his work is this, that he collects that seed which sheds from the tree of all seeds, which is opposed to harm, and conveys if there where Tîstar seizes the water, so that Tîstar may seize the water with that seed of all kinds, and may rain it on the world with the rain.'
See Chaps. XII, 5, XIII, 3-5.
Here written Gôkarn in all MSS. See Chaps. IX, 6, XVIII,
I, 2.
That is, in Yas. IX, where Haoma is entitled dûraosha.
See Chap. XXIV, 27.
7 See Chap. XXIV, 18.
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