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surging on (âbâlisno) of the water is into the sea Patik !, (15) and from the sea Patîk it goes back to the sea Varkash ?
16. “The abode and seat of the clouds are on Albürzs
17. “The demon of winter is more predominant in Afrân-vêgô 4. 18. And it is declared by revelation, (19) that in Afrân-vêgô there are "ten months winter and two months summer,” (20) and "even those” two months of warm weather “are cold as to water, cold as to earth, and cold as to plants.” 21. And their adversity is the winter, (22) and the snakes therein are many, (23) while their other adversity is little.
24. 'It is declared that Adharmazd created Airân-vêgô better than other places and districts ?
1 Av. Paitika, which Bd. XIII, 8–11 appears to identify with the Persian Gulf, but in early times, if not altogether mythic, it was probably some inlet of the Caspian or Aral.
? Av. Vouru-kasha; in Pahlavi it is usually called 'the wideformed,' and in Bd. XIII, 1, 8-10 it is identified with the ocean ; but in early times it was probably a term for the Caspian and Aral, when not applied to the mythic sea of the sky.
s Av. hara berezaiti, a lofty mountain-range,' whịch is said, in Chap. LVII, 13 and in the Bundahis, to surround the world and to be the origin of all mountains (see Bd. V, 3-5. XII, 1-4). In early times it appears to have been the name of mountains to the east of the first Iranian settlements, before it was transferred to the mountain range south of the Caspian (see Geiger's Ost. Kul. pp. 42-45).
• Av. Airya nem vaêgô, the first settlement of the Iranians, which Geiger (Qst. Kul. pp. 30–33) places on the upper waters of the Zarafsân river, and which Bd. XXIX, 12 describes, in accordance with late tradition, as in the direction of Âtûr-pâtakân (Âdarbîgân).'
Vend. I, 9, 10.
Produced by the evil spirit (see Vend. I, 7, 8). * This is inferred from Vend. I, 2-4.
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