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8. And in the beginning of the creation the whole earth was delivered over into the guardianship of the sublime Frôbak fire, the mighty Gasnasp fire, and the beneficial Bârzin-Mitrô fire ?, which are like priest, warrior, and husbandman. 9. The place of the fire Frôbak was formed on the Gadman-hômand (glorious ') mountain in Khvârizem, the fire Gasnasp was on the Asnavand mountain in Åtarô-pâtakan, and the fire Burzin-Mitrô on the Rêvand mountain which is in the Ridge of Vistasp, and its material manifestation in the world was the most complete.
10. In the reign of Hôshâng“, when men were continually going forth to the other regions (kêshvar) on the ox Srdvô", one night, half-way, while admiring the fires, the fire-stands which were prepared in three places on the back of the ox, and in which the fire was, fell into the sea, and the substance of that one great fire which was manifest, is divided into three, and they established it on the three fire-stands, and it became itself three glories whose lodgments are in the Frôbak fire, the Güsnasp fire, and the Barzin-Mitrô 6.
1 Literally, 'creature.'
The epithets of these three sacred fires are, respectively, vargân, tagîko, and pûr-sûdò in Pahlavi.
• See Bund. XVII, 5, 7, 8.
• Bund. XVII, 4 says, 'in the reign of Takhmôrup,' his successor.
6 Sarsaok or Srisaok in the Bundahis.
6 The remainder of the sayings of Zad-sparam, about the meeting of the beneficent spirit and the evil spirit,' have no special reference to the Bundahis. They treat of the following matters :
The coming of the religion, beginning in the time of Frasîyâv and Mângskîhar, with an anecdote of Kai-us and the hero Srîtô (Av. Thrita). The manifestation of the glory of Zaratast
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