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CHAPTER XX, 10-19.
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which comes out from Afrån-vêg, and goes out through the hill-country'; of all rivers the noxious creatures in it are most, as it says, that the Dâitik river is full of noxious creatures. 14. The Dargâm river is in Sade. 15. The Zend ? river passes, through the mountains of Pangistân, and flows away to the Haro river. 16. The Haro 8 river flows out from the Apârsên range. 17. The Hêtūmando river is in Sagastân, and its sources are from the A pârsên range; this is distinct from that which Frâsiyâv conducted away & 18. The river Akhôshir is in Komis?. 19. The Zismand river, in the direc
mentioned in Vend. I, 6, II, 42, 43, âbân Yt. 17, 104, Râm Yt. 2, but this may not be a river, though the phrase has, no doubt, led to locating the river Daîtîk in Aîrân-vêg.
Pâz. gopestân in K20, which is evidently Pahl. kofistân, but not the Kōhistân of southern Persia. M6 has the mountain of Pangistân, which must be incorrect, as according to S$ 15, 16, this is in north-east Khurâsân, and too far from Aîrân-vêg in Ataro-pâtakân (Âdar-bîgân), see Chap. XXIX, 12. Justi proposes to read Gurgistân (Georgia), and identifies the Daîtîk with the Araxes. But, adhering to the text of K20, the Daîtîk rises in Âdar-bîgân and departs through a hill-country, a description applicable, not only to the Araxes, but also more particularly to the Safed Rûd or white river; although this river seems to be mentioned again as the Spêd or Spend river in $ 23.
? Written Zôndak in $ 7. This can hardly be the Zendah river of Ispahan, but is probably the Tegend river, which flows past Meshhed into the Heri river.
* This is the Heri, which flows past Herat. * See Chap. XII, 9.
• The Etymander of classical writers, now the Helmand in Afghanistân. The Av. Haêtumat of Vend. I, 50, XIX, 130, Zamyâd Yt. 66, is the name of the country through which it flows.
. See $ 34 and Chap. XXI, 6. ? The district about Dânaghân. • Perhaps the Zarafsân.
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