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Overview
West’s Bundahishn translation names the Vas of Panchasadvaran as an exception to the crushing jaws of the Kar fish and opposing lizard. It moves in the wide ocean and is measured by an extraordinary comparison: its length equals the distance a person could cover in a swift journey from dawn until sunset.
The passage adds that the fish does not move even the full length of its enormous body and that water creatures live under its guardianship. These are cosmological statements about scale, movement and protection. The account does not identify it as an ordinary whale or add the head-count that may be suggested by interpretations of its name.
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 18.5,7–8. Edition date is not text-origin date.
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Primary records and illustrations
Bundahishn
Indian recension, West translation. Chapter/paragraph 18.5,7–8
Actual numbered translated passage read. No primary illustration or natural-animal identification inferred.
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- Historical religious primary-text translationBundahishn 18.5,7–8 — West translationResearch access: 2026-10-05
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