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of that river was to those of the setting sun (val frôd-yehevundânŏ)—and the Vêh1 was the river of the first-comers to the sun; formed as two horns they went on to the ocean. 21. After them eighteen 2 great rivers came out from the same Albûrz; and these twenty rivers, whose source is in Albûrs, go down into the earth, and arrive in Khvaniras.
22. Afterwards, two fountains of the sea are opened out for the earth, which are called the Kêkasta lake which has no cold wind, and on whose shore rests the triumphant fire Gûsnasp3and, secondly, the Sôvar which casts on its shores all turbidness, and keeps its own salt lake clear and pure, for it is like the semblance of an eye which casts out to its edges every ache and every impurity; and on account of its depth it is not reached to the bottom, for it goes into the ocean; and in its vicinity rests the beneficial fire Bûrzin-Mitrô 7.
23. And this was the second contest, which was with the water.
CHAPTER VII.
1. And as he (Aharman) came thirdly to the earth, which arrayed the whole earth against him— Nôshirvân, Aûharmazd IV, and Khusrô Parvîz; but since the early part of the seventh century the Tigris has practically been their extreme western limit; hence the change of the old Arag or Arang into the very similarly written Arvand, a name of the
Tigris.
Bund. XX, 2, 7. Bund. XXII, 2.
Bund. VII, 14.
Written Gûsasp in Bund. XVII, 7, and Gûsnâsp in B. Yt. III, 30, 40, while the older form Visnâsp occurs in B. Yt. III, 10. The Sôvbar of Bund. VII, 14, XII, 24, XXII, 3. 7 Bund. XVII, 8.
1 See Bund. XX, 9.
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