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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
The ninth was Mount Mazisisvau. The tenth was Mount Antare-danghu. The eleventh was Mount Erezisha. The twelfth was Mount Vaiti-gaêsal.
3. And Mount Âdarana, Mount Bayana, Mount Iskata Upairi-saêna?, with the ....s snows; the two Hamankuna mountains, the eight Vasna mountains, the eight powerful Frâvanku, the four Vidhvana summits;
4. Mount Aêzakha, Mount Maênakha, Mount Vâkhedrakaê, Mount Asaya, Mount Tudhaskaê, Mount I savaê, Mount Draoshisvau, Mount Sâirivau, Mount Nanghusmau, Mount Kakahyu, Mount Antare-Kangha";
5. Mount Sikidava, Mount Ahuna, Mount Raêmana, Mount Asha-stem bana, Mount Urunyô-vâidhkaê, Mount Asnavants, Mount Ushaoma, Mount Usta-hvarenah, Mount Syâmaka?, Mount Vafrayau, Mount Vourusha;
means "the mountain on which vegetation has grown' (ibid. tr. West).
1 The Bâdghês mountain near Herât, cacsl.
? Or Mount Iskata (“rugged"), belonging to the Upairi-saena ridge.' The Upairi-saệna ridge or A parsên ridge is the mountain of Persia, and its beginning is in Seistân and its end in Susiana' (Bund. XII, 9).
8? Kãsô-tafedhra; possibly the name of a mountain: Mount Kā sô-tafedhra Vafra.
* See p. 67, note 4.
0 Sikidâv, a mountain among those which are in Kangdes' (Bund. XII, 2, tr. West).
6 See p. 7, note 5.
? The Mount Siyâk-ômand (the black mountain') and Mount Vafar-ômand (the snowy mountain') of Bundahis XII, 22, which are said to have grown out of the Apârsên ridge and to extend towards China.
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