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CHAPTER XIX, 2-13.
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8. When that ass shall hold its neck in the ocean its ears will terrify (asahmêd), and all the water of the wide-formed ocean will shake with agitation, and the side of Ganâvad1 will tremble (shivanêd). 9. When it utters a cry all female water-creatures, of the creatures of Adharmazd, will become pregnant; and all pregnant noxious water-creatures, when they hear that cry, will cast their young. 10. When it stales in the ocean all the sea-water will become purified, which is in the seven regions of the earth—it is even on that account when all asses which come into water stale in the water-as it says thus : 'If, O three-legged ass! you were not created for the water, all the water in the sea would have perished from the contamination which the poison of the evil spirit has brought into its water, through the death of the creatures of Adharmazd.'
11. Tistar seizes the water? more completely from the ocean with the assistance of the three-legged ass. 12. Of ambergris also (ambar-ik) it is declared, that it is the dung of the three-legged ass; for if it has much spirit food, then also the moisture of the liquid nourishment goes through the veins pertaining to the body into the urine, and the dung is cast away.
13. Of the ox Hadhayôs 3, which they call Sarsaok", it says, that in the original creation men passed from region to region upon it, and in the
A mountain (see Chap. XII, 29, 34). • See Chap. VII, 11.
: Written Hadayâvs in the MSS. in Chap. XXX, 25, and Hadhayas in the Dâdistân-i Dînîk, Part II, reply 89; it is a Pâzand reading in all three places.
See Chaps. XV, 27, XVII, 4.
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| SR No. | 007687 |
| Book Title | Sacred Laws of Aryas |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Gorge Buhler |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1897 |
| Total Pages | 1979 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 36 MB |