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CHAPTER XV, 25–31.
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tries of Sûrâk, those who are in the country of Anêr , those who are in the countries of Tûr, those who are in the country of Salm which is Arům, those who are in the country of Sêni, that which is Kinistân, those who are in the country of Dài 3, and those who are in the country of Sind 4. 30. Those, indeed, throughout the seven regions are all from the lineage of Fravak, son of Siyâkmak, son of Mashya.
31. As there were ten varieties of man", and fifteen races from Fravak, there were twenty-five races all from the seed of Gâyômard; the varieties are such as those of the earth, of the water, the breast-eared, the breast-eyed, the one-legged, those also who have wings like a bat, those of the forest, with tails, and who have hair on the bodye.
Not Syria (which is Säristân, see Chap. XX, 10), but the Sûrîk of the Pahlavi Vend. I, 14, which translates Av. Sughdha, the land east of the Oxus (see Chap. XX, 8). Windischmann reads it as Paz. Erak.
? Probably for Av. anairya, 'non-Aryan,' which seems specially applied to the lands east of the Caspian.
* The countries of Tur, Salm, Sênî, and Dâî are all mentioned successively in Fravardin Yt. 143, 144, in their Avesta forms Tdirya, Sairima, Sâini, and Dâhi. The country of Târ was part of the present Turkistân, that of Salm is rightly identified with Arům (the eastern Roman Empire, or Asia Minor) in the text; the country of Sênî (miswritten Sênd), being identified with Kînîstân, was probably the territory of Samarkand, and may perhaps be connected with Mount Kînð (see Chap. XII, 2, 13); and the land of Dâî must be sought somewhere in the same neighbourhood.
• Bactria or any part of north-western India may be intended; wherever Brahmans and Buddhists existed as they did in Bactria) was considered a part of India in Sasanian times.
6 Grown on a separate tree (see § 5). • Only seven varieties of human monsters are here enumerated,
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