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the upholder of Adharmazd, came out to a conference on the bank of the water of Dâitih ?.
3. For the occurrence of the second, which is Vohûmano's, five animals out of the five species 2 which are the worldly tokens of Vohûmanô, have come with Zaratust to a conference on Hagar and Aůsind 8 ; and on that day also, before their coming out to the conference, their tongues are fully liberated and spoke with human words. 4. And among the rest * is a fish of one species, Arzuvâ " by name; of those in burrows (khanoigâno) are the white ermine and white marten ; of the flying creatures (vâyandagân) is the Karsipto, a bird like a species of waterfowl; of the wide-travellers (faråkhvo-raftârâno) is the hare which is showing wild beasts the way to the water; and of those suitable for grazing (karakoargânigân) is the white ass-goat; with human words they also accepted the religion from Allharmazd. 5. With the chieftainship of the five species they are intrusted, so that the like animals also, with their own voices, and as much as their knowledge is capable, shall recount the powerfulness of the religion.
i See Dk. VII, iii, 51, 54.
. These species, which are named in $ 4, are those mentioned in the Avesta, Visp. I, 1.
8 Av. Hukairya of Yt. XII, 24, and Us-hindu of Yt. VIII, 32, described in Bd. XII, 5, 6, as two neighbouring mountains, for the pure water of Arêdvisûr falls from the summit of Hûgar to Ausind which stands in the circumambient ocean.
• The remainder of K 35, the MS. brought by Westergaard from Kirmân, is lost; but an old copy of it (BK, see the Introduction) exists in Bombay, which supplies the missing text, as an authority independent of T.
• See Bd. XIV, 26; apparently the same as the Aris, or Kar, the chief of fish, ibid. XVIII, 3, 5; XXIV, 13.
• See Bd. XIV, 23; XIX, 16; XXIV, II.
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