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wide-formed is the ocean that the water of a thousand lakes is held by it, such as the source Arêdvivsûr", which some say is the fountain lake. 2. Every particular lake is of a particular kind?, some are great, and some are small; some are so large that a man with a horse might compass them around in forty days, which is 1700 leagues (parasang) in extent.
3. Through the warmth and clearness of the water, purifying more than other waters, everything continually flows from the source Arêdvîvsûr. 4. At the south of Mount Albürz a hundred thousand golden channels are there formed, and that water goes with warmth and clearness, through the channels, on to Hûgar the lofty 4; on the summit of that mountain is a lake5; into that lake it flows, becomes quite purified, and comes back through a different golden channel. 5. At the height of a thousand men an open golden branch from that channel is connected with Mount Adsindôm 6 amid the wideformed ocean; from there one portion flows forth to the ocean for the purification of the sea, and one portion drizzles in moisture upon the whole of this earth, and all the creations of Adharmazd acquire
direction of the south limit of Albârz, and possesses one-third of this earth.' 1 The Av. Ardvî sûra of âbân Yt. 1, &c.
Literally, 'for every single lake there is a single kind;' but we may perhaps read lá, 'not,' instead of the very similar râî, 'for,' and translate as follows : 'every single lake is not of one kind;' which expresses very nearly the same meaning.
s Compare âbân Yt. 101. * See Chap. XII, 5.
Lake Urvis (see Chap. XXII, 11). • See Chaps. XII, 6, and XVIII, 10, 11.
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