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and among its contents are a thousand sources and fountains, such as are called lakes (var); a thousand water-fountains, whose water is from the ocean, come up from the lakes and are poured forth into it. 8. And the size of some of all the lakes and all the fountains of water is as much as a fast rider on an Arab horse, who continually compasses and canters around them, will attain in forty days, which is 1900' long leagues (parasang-i a karik), each league being at least 20,000 feet.
9. And after the noxious creatures died ?, and the poison therefrom was mixed up in the earth, in order to utterly destroy that poison Tîstar went down into the ocean; and Apâôsh, the demon, hastened to meet him, and at the alarm of the first contest Tistar was in terror (pard). 10. And he applied unto Adharmazd, who brought such power unto Tistar as arises through propitiation and praise and invoking by names, and they call. forth such power unto Tistar as that of ten vigorous horses, ten vigorous camels, ten vigorous bulls, ten mountains when hurled, and ten single-stream rivers when together. 11. And without alarm he drove out Apâôsh, the demon, and kept him away from the sources of the ocean.
12. And with a cup and measuring bowl, which possessed the diligence even of a guardian spirit (fra vâhar), he seized many more handfuls of water,
* Bund. XIII, 2 has 1700, but as neither number is a multiple of forty in round numbers, it is probable that both are wrong, and that we ought to read 1600.
· Bund. VII, 7-14 is paraphrased in 8$ 9-14. 8 The Av. aokhtô-nâmana yasna of Tistar Yt. 11, 23, 24.
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