On the nature of mountains it says in revelation, that, at first, the mountains have grown forth in eighteen years; and Albûrz ever grew, till the completion of eight hundred years; two hundred years up to the star station (pâyak), two hundred years to the moon station, two hundred years to the sun station, and two hundred years to the endless light.

While the other mountains have grown out of Albûrz, in number 2244 mountains, and are Hûgar the lofty, Têrak of Albûrz, Kakâd-i-Dâîtîk, and the Arezûr ridge, the Aûsîndôm mountain, Mount Apârsên which they say is the mountain of Pârs, Mount Zarid also which is Mount Mânûs, Mount Aîrak, Mount Kaf, Mount Vâdgês, Mount Aûshdâstâr, Mount Arezûr-bûm, Mount Rôyisn-hômand, Mount Padashkhvârgar which is the greatest in Khvârîh, the mountain which they call Kînŏ, Mount Rêvand, Mount Dârspêt the Bakyir mountain, Mount Kabed-sikaft, Mount Sîyâk-mûî-mand, Mount Vafar-hômand, Mount Spendyâd and Kôndrâsp, Mount Asnavand and Kôndras, Mount Sikidâv, a mountain among which are in Kangdez, of which they say that they are a comfort and delight of the good creator, the smaller hills.

I will mention them also a second time; Albûrz is around this earth and is connected with the sky.

The Têrak of Albûrz is that through which the stars, moon, and sun pass in, and through it they come back.

Hûgar the lofty is that from which the water of Arêdvîvsûr leaps down the height of a thousand men.

The Aûsîndôm mountain is that which, being of ruby (khûn-âhinŏ), of the substance of the sky, is in the midst of the wide-formed ocean, so that its water, which is from Hûgar, pours down into it (the ocean).

Kakâd-i-Dâîtîk ('the judicial peak') is that of the middle of the world, the height of a hundred men, on which the Kînvar bridge stands; and they take account of the soul at that place.

The Arezûr ridge [of the Albûrz mountain] is a summit at the gate of hell, where they always hold the concourse of the demons.

This also is said, that, excepting Albûrz, the Apârsên mountain is the greatest; the Apârsên mountain they call the mountain of Pars, and its beginning is in Sagastân and its end in Khûgîstân.

Mount Mânûs is great; the mountain on which Mânûskîhar was born.

The remaining mountains have chiefly grown from those; as it is said that the elevation (afsârîh) of the districts had arisen most around those three mountains.

Mount Aîrak is in the middle from Hamadân to Khvârizem, and has grown from Mount Apârsên.

Mount [Kînŏ], which is on its east, on the frontier of Tûrkistân, is connected also with Apârsên.

Mount Kaf has grown from the same Mount Apârsên.

Mount Aûshdâstâr is in Sagastân.

Mount Arezûr is that which is in the direction of Arûm.

The Padashkhvârgar mountain is that which is in Taparîstân and the side of Gîlân.

The Rêvand mountain is in Khûrâsân, on which the Bûrzîn fire was established; and its name Rêvand means this, that it is glorious.

The Vâdgês mountain is that which is on the frontier of the Vâdgêsians; that quarter is full of timber and full of trees.

The Bakyîr mountain is that which Frâsiyâv of Tûr used as a stronghold, and he made his residence within it; and in the days of Yim a myriad towns and cities were erected on its pleasant and prosperous territory.

Mount Kabed-sikaft ('very rugged') is that in Pârs, out of the same Mount Apârsên.

Mount Sîyâk-hômand ('being black') and Mount Vafar-hômand ('having snow'), as far as their Kâvûl borders, have grown out of it (Apârsên) towards the direction of Kînŏ.

The Spendyâd mountain is in the circuit (var) of Rêvand.

The Kôndrâsp mountain, on the summit of which is Lake Sôvbar, is in the district (or by the town) of Tûs.

The Kondrâs mountain is in Aîrân-vêg. The Asnavand mountain is in Âtarô-pâtakân. 27. The Rôyisn-hômand ('having growth') mountain is that on which vegetation has grown. 28. Whatever mountains are those which are in every place of the various districts and various countries, and cause the tillage and prosperity therein, are many in name and many in number, and have grown from these same mountains. 29. As Mount Ganâvad, Mount Asparôg, Mount Pâhargar, Mount Dimâvand, Mount Râvak, Mount Zarîn, Mount Gêsbakht, Mount Dâvad, Mount Mîgîn, and Mount Marak, which have all grown from Mount Apârsên, of which the other mountains are enumerated. 30. For the Dâvad mountain has grown into Khûgîstân likewise from the Apârsên mountain. 31. The Dimâvand mountain is that in which Bêvarâsp is bound. 32. From the same Padashkhvârgar mountain unto Mount Kûmîs, which they call Mount Madôfryâd ('Come-to-help')—that in which Vistâsp routed Argâsp—is Mount Mîyân-i-dast ('mid-plain'), and was broken off from that mountain there. 33. They say, in the war of the religion, when there was confusion among the Iranians it broke off from that mountain, and slid down into the middle of the plain; the Iranians were saved by it, and it was called, 'Come-to-help' by them. 34. The Ganâvad mountain is likewise there, on the Ridge of Vistâsp (pûst-i Vistâspân) at the abode of the Bûrzîn-Mitrô fire, nine leagues (parasang) to the west. 35. Râvak Bîsan is in Zrâvakad; this place, some say, is Zravad, some call it Bîsan, some Kalâk; from this the road of two sides of the mountain is down the middle of a fortress; for this reason, that is, because it is there formed, they call Kalâk a fortress this place they also call within the land of Sarak. 36. Mount Asparôg is established from the country of Lake Kêkast unto Pârs. 37. Pâhargar ('the Pâhar range') is in Khûrâsân. 38. Mount Marak is in Lârân. 39. Mount Zarîn is in Tûrkîstân. 40. Mount Bakht-tan is in Spâhân. 41. The rest, apart from this enumeration, which they reckon as fostering hills of the country in the religion of the Mazdayasnians, are the small hills, those which have grown piecemeal in places.