'ýatcit
ahi rashnvô ashâum upa avãm vanãm ýãm saênahe ýâ hishtaite
maidhîm zrayanghô vourukashahe ýâ hubish eredhwô-bish ýâ vaoce
vîspô-bish nãma
ýãm upairi urvaranãm
vîspanãm taoxma nidhayat
zbayamahi ....
ýãm upairi urvaranãm
vîspanãm taoxma nidhayat
zbayamahi ....
Whether thou, O holy Rashnu! art
on the tree of the eagle, that stands in the middle of the sea
Vouru-Kasha, that is called the tree of good remedies, the tree of
powerful remedies, the tree of all remedies, and on which rest the
seeds of all plants; we invoke, we bless Rashnu, the strong. I invoke
his friendship towards this var prepared....
See also Yasht 14.41.
śyeno of Rigveda 4.18.13, where Indra (their evenworth of our Thunor/Thur, the Northern Thor), is made to say:
avartyā śuna āntrāṇi pece na deveṣu vivide marḍitāram |
apaśyaṃ jāyām amahīyamānām adhā me śyeno madhv ā jabhāra ||
In deep distress I cooked a dog's intestines.
Among the Gods I found not one to comfort.
My consort I beheld in degradation. The Falcon then brought me the pleasant Soma.
My consort I beheld in degradation. The Falcon then brought me the pleasant Soma.
From Avestan mərəγō
saēnō
‘the bird Saēna’, through Pahlavi Sēnmurw cometh simorḡ. Thus the
arn in the tree becometh the simurgh, see Zādspram's
Anthology
(Vizīdagīhā
ī Zādspram)
chap. 8 (awending E. W. West):
The fourth battle, that of the plants
1. As he (Ahriman) came fourthly to the plants --
which have struggled (kukhshi-aito) against him with the whole
vegetation -- because the vegetation was quite dry, Amurdad, by whom
the essence of the world's vegetation was seized upon, pounded it up
small, and mixed it up with the rain-water of Tishtar. 2. After the
rain the whole earth is discerned sprouting, and ten thousand special
species and a hundred thousand additional species (levatman sardako)
so grew as if there were a species of every kind; and those ten
thousand species are provided for keeping away the ten thousand
diseases.
3. Afterwards, the seed was taken up from those
hundred thousand species of plants, and from the collection of seed
the tree of all germs, amid the wide-formed ocean, was produced, from
which all species of plants continually grow. 4. And the griffin bird
(simurgh) has his resting-place upon it; when he wanders forth from
within it, he scatters the dry seed into the water, and it is rained
back to the earth with the rain.
5. And in its vicinity the tree was produced which
is the white Haoma, the counteractor of decrepitude, the reviver of
the dead, and the immortalizer of the living.
6. This was the fourth contest, about the plants.
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