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Overview

The ox-fish is said to occur throughout the seas in Bundahishn 19.17. Its cry causes fish to become pregnant while pregnant noxious water creatures cast their young.

This brief account parallels a function assigned to the three-legged ass in the preceding material, but the text names the ox-fish separately. Its translated designation does not establish a precise ox-headed appearance: the notice gives distribution and vocal effect rather than a detailed physical description.

Sea distributionPowerful cryFish reproductionNoxious-creature opposition
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Origins & earliest records

Iranian Zoroastrian textual cosmology

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Records & interpretation

Bundahishn translated primary paragraphs directly read.

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    Bundahishn (Indian recension)

    E. W. West (translator) · 1897

    Hosted source attributes SBE5 Oxford 1897 edition; chapter/paragraph 19.17. Edition date is not text-origin date.

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Bundahishn

Indian recension, West translation. Chapter/paragraph 19.17

Actual numbered translated passage read. No primary illustration or natural-animal identification inferred.

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  1. Historical religious primary-text translationBundahishn 19.17 — West translationResearch access: 2026-10-05

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