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Overview
Hadhayosh, also called Sarsaok in West’s translation, is an ox associated with the early movement of humans between regions. The Bundahishn says people passed from one region to another upon it during the original creation.
The same compact notice gives it a future role at the renovation of the universe, when an immortality-producing beverage is prepared from it. The selected passage supplies these two temporally separated functions without a detailed anatomical description. It remains distinct from ordinary oxen and from the primal bovine elsewhere in Zoroastrian creation accounts.
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 19.13. Edition date is not text-origin date.
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Primary records and illustrations
Bundahishn
Indian recension, West translation. Chapter/paragraph 19.13
Actual numbered translated passage read. No primary illustration or natural-animal identification inferred.
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- Historical religious primary-text translationBundahishn 19.13 — West translationResearch access: 2026-10-05
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