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Overview
Ashozusht is also called Zobara-vahman and Shok in West’s Bundahishn translation. Its tongue has delivered an Avesta, and its speech makes demons tremble. The passage ties this protective recitation to the treatment of nail parings.
Unprayed-over clippings may be seized by demons and sorcerers and used like arrows against the bird. When the appropriate prayer has been uttered, Ashozusht eats the clipping so its enemies cannot control it. The stated distinction belongs to ritual cosmology, with the bird defending against the harmful use of discarded material.
Origins & earliest records
Iranian Zoroastrian textual cosmology
Records & interpretation
Bundahishn translated primary paragraphs directly read.
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Bundahishn (Indian recension)
Hosted source attributes SBE5 Oxford 1897 edition; chapter/paragraph 19.19–20. Edition date is not text-origin date.
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Primary records and illustrations
Bundahishn
Indian recension, West translation. Chapter/paragraph 19.19–20
Actual numbered translated passage read. No primary illustration or natural-animal identification inferred.
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- Historical religious primary-text translationBundahishn 19.19–20 — West translationResearch access: 2026-10-05
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