Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)
Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 414
gi-puslif)^ but the ancientZoroastrians named it zairimyahura or nicknamed it zairi-myaka (a word of uncertain meaning) and looked upon thetortoise as one of Ahrimans creatures and therefore to bedestroyed. 1 Happily in this respect the harmless creature is 1 Avesta, Vd. 13. 6 ; see also {kasy-… … A Persian Shepherd(Near Sahnah)
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