[424] Herat.
[425] Candahar.
[426] See b. xi. c. viii. § [9].
[427] The text is corrupt: ἐκ μέρους is probably taken from some other part of the text and here inserted.
[428] The same as Zarangæ; they probably dwelt on the lake Zarah, which undoubtedly retains its Zend name. Wilson’s Ariana.
[429] Corresponding nearly with the present Hamadan.
[430] None is said to be found there at the present day.
[431] They were called Ariaspi; Cyrus, son of Cambyses, gave them the name Euergetæ, “benefactors,” in consideration of the services which they had rendered in his expedition against the Scythians.
[432] At the beginning of winter.
[433] The text is corrupt; the words between brackets are supplied by Kramer’s conjecture. See b. xi. c. xi. § 2.