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female, and each was a brother and sister-wife; and from every one of them, in fifty years, children were born, and they themselves died in a hundred years. 25. Of those seven pairs one was Siyâkmak, the name of the man, and Nasâk 1 of the woman; and from them a pair was born, whose names were Fravâk of the man and Fravâkain of the woman. 26. From them fifteen pairs were born, every single pair of whom became a race (sardak); and from them the constant continuance of the generations of the world arose.
27. Owing to the increase (zâyisn) of the whole fifteen races, nine races proceeded on the back of the ox Sarsaok ?, through the wide-formed ocean, to the other six regions (kêshvar), and stayed there; and six races of men remained in Khvaniras. 28. Of those six races the name of the man of one pair was Tâz and of the woman Tâzak, and they went to the plain of the Tazikân (Arabs); and of one pair Hôshyang s was the name of the man and Guzak of the woman, and from them arose the Afrânakân (Iranians); and from one pair the Mâzendarâns + have arisen. 29. Among the number (pavan aê mar) were those who are in the coun
1 Or Vasak.'
* See Chaps. XVII, 4, XIX, 13; the name is here, written Srisaok in the MSS., and is a Påzand reading in all three places.
• Av. Haoshyangha of âbân Yt. 21, Gôs Yt. 3, Fravardin Yt. 137, Râm Yt. 7, Ashi Yt. 24, 26, Zamyåd Yt. 26. His usual epithet is paradhâta (Pahl. pês-dad), which is thus explained in the Pahlavi Vend. XX, 7: 'this early law (pês.dâ dih) was this, that he first set going the law of sovereignty.' For this reason he is considered to be the founder of the earliest, or Pêsdadian, dynasty. See Chaps. XXXI, 1, XXXIV, 3, 4.
• The people of the southern coast of the Caspian, the Mâzainya daêva, Mâzainyan demons or idolators,' of the Avesta.
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