The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04): Vendîdâd: Fargard I

6:4 Bâkhtri; Bactra; Balkh. 6:5 'The corn-carrying ants' (Asp.; cf. Farg. XIV, 5). 6:6 There were several towns of this name, but none between Môuru and Bâkhdhi. But the sentence may be translated also: 'Nisâya between which and Bâkhdhi Môuru lies,' which would point to Νισαία, the capital of Parthia (Παρθαύνισα Isid. of Charax 12); cf. Pliny 6, 25 (29). 6:7 'One must believe in the law, and have no doubt whatever about it in the heart, and firmly believe that the good and right law that Ormazd sent to the world is the same law that was brought to us by Zardust' (Saddar 1). 7:1 Haraiva; Areia; the basin of the Hari river, or Herat. 7:2 Doubtful. 7:3 Doubtful. 7:4 'Kapul' (Comm.; see the Introd. to the Fargard). 7:5 See Introd. IV, 21. 7:6 According to Asp. Tus (in Khorasan); more probably the land around Ispahan. See the Introd. to the Fargard. 7:7 Or better, tyranny: 'the great are proud there' (Comm.) 7:8 Varkâna; Hyrcania. 'Khnenta is a river in Vehrkâna' (Comm.); consequently the river Gorgân. 7:9 See Farg. VIII, 31. 7:10 Harauvati; Ἀράχωτος; Harût. 8:1 See Farg. III, 36 seq. 8:2 The basin of the Ἐτύμανδρος or Erymanthus; now Helmend. Cf. Farg. XIX, 39. 8:3 The wizards; see Introd. IV, 20. 8:4 The evil eye. 8:5 As a Γόης. Witchcraft is exercised either by the eye or by the voice (Asp.) 8:6 Vendîdâd Sâdah: 'Then they come forth to kill and to strike to the heart! A gloss cites, as productions of the wizard, I snow and hail' (cf. Hippocrates, De Morbo Sacro 1, and Pausanias 2, 34, 4). To that gloss seems to belong the corrupt Zend sentence that follows, and that may mean 'they increase the plague of locusts' (cf. Farg. VII, 26).