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tion of Soghd, flows away towards the Khvegand river. 20. The Khvegand? river goes on through the midst of Samarkand and Pargana, and they call it also the river Ashârd. 21. The Marv> river, a glorious river in the easts, flows out from the Apârsên range. 22. The Balkh river comes out from the Apârsên mountain of Bâmikân“, and flows on to the Vého river. 23. The Spêd river is in Âtarópâtakân; they say that Dahâk begged a favour? here from Aharman and the demons. 24. The Tort 8 river, which they call also the Koir, comes out from
1 This is evidently not the small affluent now called the Khugand, but the great Syr-darya or Iaxartes, which flows through the provinces of Farghanah and Samarkand, past Kokand, Khugand, and Tashkand, into the Aral. The Pâz. Ashârd represents Pahl. Khshârt, or Ashårt (Iaxartes).
The Murghâb. Or, 'in Khûrâsân.' • Bâmian, near which the river of Balkh has its source.
• Justi observes that it should be the Arag river;' but according to an Armenian writer of the seventh century the Persians called the Oxus the Vêh river, and considered it to be in India, because Buddhists occupied the country on its banks (see Garrez in Journal Asiatique for 1869, pp. 161-198). It would seem, therefore, that the Oxus was sometimes (or in early times) considered a part of the Arag (Araxes), and sometimes (or in later times) a part of the Vêh (Indus).
o So in M6, but K20 has' Spend,' both here and in $7. The name of this river corresponds with that of the Safèd Röd, although the position of that river agrees best with the account given of the Dâîtîk in $ 13.
? Compare Râm Yt. 19, 20. K20 has there,' instead of "here.'
8 Called Rad in $ 7 (by the loss of the first letter of the original Pahlavi name); by its alternative name, Koir, Justi identifies it as the Kûr in Georgia, flowing into the Caspian, or sea of Vergân, the Av. Vehrkana (Hyrcania) of Vend. I, 42, which is Gargân in Pahlavi.
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