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Passages similar to: Bundahishn — Chapter XIV
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Bundahishn
Chapter XIV (5)
A thousand days and nights they were without eating, and first water and afterwards herbage (aûrvar) were devoured by them.
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
V. Christ's Long Fast in the Wilderness—satan's Futile Wiles (2)
In those days he did eat nothing. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was a hungered.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XLII (14)
And the people of Egypt fed themselves thereon during the first year of their famine.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (3)
When a man is thus said to be hungry, water is carrying away (digests) what has been eaten by him. Therefore as they speak of a cow-leader (go-nâya), ...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XC (4)
And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only...
Book of Enoch
Chapter CVIII (9)
Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 7 (2)
Svetaketu abstained from food for fifteen days. Then he came to his father and said: 'What shall I say?' The father said: 'Repeat the Rik, Yagus, and...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXII (7)
Then said: "More thoughtful Mary was of making The marriage feast complete and honourable, Than of her mouth which now for you responds; And for...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (342)
Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; held in fetters and bonds, they undergo pain for a long time, again and again.
Enuma Elish
Other Accounts: Dragon Myth (REV.8)
For three years and three months, one day and [one night] 2
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 7 (1)
Abstain from food for fifteen days, but drink as much water as you like, for breath comes from water, and will not be cut off, if you drink water.'...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 5 (1.5.1)
When the Father produced by intellect And austenty seven kinds of food, One of his [foods] was common to all, Of two he let the gods partake, Three...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (335)
Whomsoever this fierce thirst overcomes, full of poison, in this world, his sufferings increase like the abounding Bîrana grass.
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (28)
But the sheep escaped from that water and went forth into a wilderness, where there was no water and no grass; and they began to open their eyes and t...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 2 (1.2.1)
In the beginning nothing whatsoever was here. This [world] was covered over with death, with hunger — for hunger is death. Then he made up his mind...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet XI (7)
No one could see his fellow, they could not recognize each other in the torrent. The gods were frightened by the Flood, and retreated, ascending to the heaven of Anu.…
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet VI (6)
And the dead will outnumber the living! Anu addressed princess Ishtar, saying: "If you demand the Bull of Heaven from me, there will be seven years of empty husks for the land of Uruk.…
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXIX (4)
〈And the waning〉 which takes place in the first portal in its season, till one hundred and seventy-seven days are accomplished: reckoned according to...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXII (19)
And these are the signs of (his) days on the earth: glowing heat and dryness, and the trees ripen their fruits and produce all their fruits ripe and r...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter IV (30)
And he lacked seventy years of one thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the heavens and therefore was it written ...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XLII (1)
And in the first year of the third week of 2171 a m. the forty-fifth jubilee the famine began to come into the land, and the lain refused to be given ...
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