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countries, and cause the tillage and prosperity therein, are many in name and many in number, and have grown from these same mountains. 29. As Mount Ganâvad, Mount Asparóg, Mount Pâhargar, Mount Dimâvand, Mount Råvak, Mount Zarin, Mount Gêsbakht, Mount Dâvad, Mount Migin, and Mount Marak ?, which have all grown from Mount Apârsên, of which the other mountains are enumerated. 30. For the Dåvad ? mountain has grown into Khôgistân likewise from the Apârsên mountain. 31. The Dimâvand 8 mountain is that in which Bêvarasp is bound. 32. From the same Padashkhvârgar mountain unto Mount Kamis 4, which they call Mount Madôfryâd ("Come-to-help ') — that in which Vistâsp routed Argåsp- is Mount Miyân-idast (mid-plain'), and was broken off from that mountain there. 33. They say, in the war of the religion, when there was confusion among the Iranians it broke off from that mountain, and slid down into the middle of the plain; the Iranians were saved by
1 This list is evidently intended to include the chief mountains known to the author of the Bundahis, which he could not identify with any of those mentioned in the Avesta.
* This is the Pâzand reading of the name, on which very little reliance can be placed; the Pahlavi can also be read Dânad, and it may be the Deana mountain, 12,000 feet high, near Kaski-zard.
s See Chap. XXIX, 9. This volcanic mountain, about 20,000 feet high and near Teheran, still retains this ancient Persian name, meaning 'wintry.' It is the chief mountain of the Padashkhvârgar range, which the Bundahis evidently considers as an offshoot of the Apârsên ranges.
• The present name of a mountain between Nîsâpâr and the desert.
o The name of a place about midway between Astarâbâd and Nîsapûr. This mountain is called Migîn in § 29, probably from a place called Mezinan in the same neighbourhood.
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