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vegetation, and it withered away immediately. 17. And avarice, want, pain, hunger, disease, lust, and lethargy were diffused by him abroad upon the ox and Gâyômard.
18. Before his coming to the ox, Adharmazd ground up the healing fruit?, which some call 'binâk,' small in water openly before its eyes, so that its damage and discomfort from the calamity (zanisn) might be less; and when it became at the same time lean and ill, as its breath went forth and it passed away, the ox also spoke thus : ‘The cattle are to be created, and their work, labour, and care are to be appointed.'
19. And before his coming to Gâyômard, Adharmazd brought forth a sweat upon Gâyômard, so long as he might recite a prayer (vâg) of one stanza (vikast); moreover, Adharmazd formed that sweat into the youthful body of a man of fifteen years, radiant and tall. 20. When Gâyômard issued from the sweat he saw the world dark as night, and the earth as though not a needle's point remained free from noxious creatures; the celestial sphere was in revolution, and the sun and moon remained in motion : and the world's struggle, owing to the clamour of the Mazinikan demons?, was with the constellations.
21. And the evil spirit thought that the creatures of Adharmazd were all rendered useless except
1 The word mîvang is an unusual form of mîvak, fruit.' It is probably to be traced to an Av. mivangh, which might mean fatness,' as Windischmann suggests.
* The Mâzainya daêva of the Avesta, and Mazendarân demons, or idolators, of Persian legends.
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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 |