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Vázist !, the fire which is in a cloud which stands opposed to Spêngargâk in conflict; the fire Spênist, the fire which they keep in use in the world, likewise the fire of Vâhrâm. 2. Of those five fires one consumes both water and food, as that which is in the bodies of men; one consumes water and consumes no food, as that which is in plants, which live and grow through water; one consumes food and consumes no water, as that which they keep in use in the world, and likewise the fire of Vâhrâm; one consumes no water and no food, as the fire Vâzist. 3. The Berezi-savang is that in the earth and mountains and other things, which * Adharmazd created, in the original creation, like three breathing souls (nismô); through the watchfulness and protection due to them the world ever develops (vakhshed).
4. And in the reign of Takhmôrupo, when men continually passed, on the back of the ox Sarsaoko, from Khvaniras to the other regions, one night
1. The fire Vázist, that which smites the demon Spengargâ' (Pahl. Yas. XVII, 66). See Chap. VII, 12.
3. The propitious fire which stands in heaven before Adharmazd in a spiritual state' (Pahl. Yas. XVII, 67).
The Bahrâm fire, or sacred fire at places of worship. • M6 has min, instead of man, which alters the translation, but not the meaning. This appears to be a different account of the fire Berezi-savang to that given in § 1, but it merely implies that it is fire in its spiritual state, and the name can, therefore, be applied to any natural fire which can be attributed to supernatural agency, such as burning springs of petroleum, volcanic eruptions, ignis fatuus, phosphorescence of the sea, &c.
o The second Pêsdâdian monarch (see Chaps. XXXI, 2, 3, XXXIV, 4).
• Written Srisaok in the MSS. in Chap. XV, 27; where it also appears that the sea was the wide-formed ocean.' See likewise Chap. XIX, 13.
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