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Bundahishn

Chapter IX
Zoroastrian trans. E.W. West • c. 9th century CE
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The conflict waged with plants was that when they became quite dry.
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Amerôdad the arch-angel, as the vegetation was his own, pounded the plants small, and mixed them up with the water which Tîstar seized, and Tîstar made that water rain down upon the whole earth.
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On the whole earth plants grew up like hair upon the heads of men.
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Ten thousand of them grew forth of one special description, for keeping away the ten thousand species of disease which the evil spirit produced for the creatures; and from those ten thousand, the 100,000 species of plants have grown forth.
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From that same germ of plants the tree of all germs was given forth, and grew up in the wide-formed ocean, from which the germs of all species of plants ever increased.
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And near to that tree of all germs the Gôkard tree was produced, for keeping away deformed (dûspad) decrepitude; and the full perfection of the world arose therefrom.