﻿LIFE AND WRITINGS OF AVYAR. 349 



God lias brought me into the world, and deter- 

 mined my tute — is he perhaps dead? He surely 

 will not let me starve — go, dear mother, and fear 

 nothing for my sake. The fourth said : Is not 

 the c^x^ surrounded with a hard shell ? and God 

 notwithstanding vivifies the little brood in it — will 

 not he i'eed it after it has broken through the shell ? 

 Thus he will also feed me, do not be troubled but 

 cheerful, and be confident in his Providence. The 

 fifth said to her: He who has made the finest veins 

 and channels within the plants, in which the nourish- 

 ing particles of the earth rise and cause their growth, 

 and who has formed the smallest insects so wonder- 

 fully in their parts, and gives them food, will not he 

 do the same forme? be not therefore cast down, but 

 be in g0(Kl spirits and hope in him. The sixth said : 

 Manifold and trilling are the occupations of men, 

 but the great work of the Almighty is to create and 

 to preserve ; believe this and comfort thyself The 

 seventh addressed her thus : God creates such differ- 

 ent (jualities m the trees and plants, that they pro- 

 duce sour, sweet, bitter, and various delicious fruits. 

 He, who is powerful to do this, will also provide for 

 me: why dost thou M'cep, my dear motlser? — bg 

 cheerful and liope in him. Each of these children 

 was soon after found, taken up, nursed, and provided 

 for by people of the liighest, middle, and lowest ranks. 

 One by a king, another by a washerman, another 

 ])y a poet and philosopher, another by a toddyman, 

 another by a basket-maker, another by a brarnin, 

 aud another by an outcast. Avyar, of whose writ- 

 ings 1 shall give some account, had the fate to be 

 educated by the poet. The time in which she lived, 

 is placed in the age when the three famous kings, 

 Skolens SiiERON, and Pandten lived, which falls 

 about the Qth century of the Christian i^ra. 



Amongst other sciences, she was well acquainted 

 with chemistry, and became an adept, possessing 

 the power of making ^oid, the best medicine, and 



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