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SELECTIONS OF ZÂD-SPARAM, IX, 3–10.
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5. And it is also said that from the lungs are the ruelike herbs' which heal, and are for the lung-disease of cattle. 6. This, rooted amid the heart, is thyme, from which is Vohůman's thorough withstanding of the stench of Akôman", and it is for that which proceeds from the sick and yawners.
7. Afterwards, the brilliance of the seed, seized upon, by strength, from the seed which was the ox's, they would carry off from it, and the brilliance was intrusted to the angel of the moons; in a place therein that seed was thoroughly purified by the light of the moon, and was restored in its many qualities, and made fully infused with life (gânvarhômand). 8. Forth from there it produced for Afrån-vêg, first, two oxen, a pair, male and female", and, afterwards, other species, until the completion of the 282 species 0; and they were discernible as far as two long leagues on the earth. 9. Quadrupeds walked forth on the land, fish swam in the water, and birds flew in the atmosphere; in every two, at the time good eating is enjoyed, a longing (âvdahân) arose therefrom, and pregnancy and birth.
10. Secondly, their subdivision is thus:- First, they are divided into three, that is, quadrupeds walking on the earth, fish swimming in the water,
reconciled with the corresponding clause of Bund. XIV, 2. Altering dồnak and gûnak into gandanak, and sa magâ into samasdar, we might read, 'from the nose is mâys, which is called the leek, and the leek was an onion;' but this is doubtful, and leaves the word mâys unexplained. • The MS. has gospendâně, 'cattle,' instead of sipandano, rue herbs.' . See Bund. I, 24, 27, XXVIII, 7, XXX, 29. • Bund. X, 2, XIV, 3.
• Bund. X, 3, XIV, 4. * Bund. X, 3, XIV, 13.
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