Abstract
rukh. They say that this is an animal that looks like a camel (ba'lr). He has two humps, and tusks. One has to be wary of all the parts of his body: his flesh, his blood, his spittle and his dung. No animal can pass him when he has sighted it, for he can run faster than the wind and overtakes all other animals. If an animal fleeing from him gets high up in a tree or on another high place where he cannot reach it, he stops in front of it and spreads his tail so that it has the shape of a big shovel. Then he pees in it and throws his urine to the animal he is pursuing. His tail is membrane-like, so that it can easily be spread and used to hold something. If the fleeing animal then [several letters unreadable] comes down, he defaecates on it. If his urine or faeces land on an animal, it dies. The rukh in chess is called after him, because it is stronger than all the other pieces.
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