xrafstar

plural xrafstars

1. ZoroastrianismAny animal considered harmful or repulsive, and not to be sacrificed or eaten.

   There are three kinds of xrafstars corresponding to three categories of animals: those that live in water, those that live on earth, and those that live in the air.

   1994, JSAI, volume 17, page 23

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   GBd 22 gives details of certain xrafstars, such as the silkworm and the honeybee, which 'Ohrmazd through omniscience diverts to the benefit of creatures' (my translation), just as he also makes the noxious creatures attack and kill their own species (GBd 22.29).

   2015, Michael Stausberg, Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism, page 352