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Overview
The lizard appears in the Bundahishn as the evil spirit’s counter-creation against Gaokerena or Haoma in the deep ocean. Its purpose in the passage is to injure the tree associated with the future renewal of the universe.
Ten Kar fish oppose it, maintaining a circling guard. The text calls the lizard the greatest creature proceeding from the evil spirit and gives it, like the fish, spiritual sustenance throughout the long struggle. It is not given a personal name or a further bodily portrait, so the descriptive title preserves its particular opponent and role.
Origins & earliest records
Iranian Zoroastrian textual cosmology
Records & interpretation
Bundahishn translated primary paragraphs directly read.
Selected bibliography
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Bundahishn (Indian recension)
Hosted source attributes SBE5 Oxford 1897 edition; chapter/paragraph 18.2–6. Edition date is not text-origin date.
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Primary records and illustrations
Bundahishn
Indian recension, West translation. Chapter/paragraph 18.2–6
Actual numbered translated passage read. No primary illustration or natural-animal identification inferred.
References
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- Historical religious primary-text translationBundahishn 18.2–6 — West translationResearch access: 2026-10-05
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