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Bundahishn

Bundahishn 26

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English · E. W. West

A Hâsar' on the ground is a Parasang of one thousand steps of the two feet.

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English · E. W. West

A Parasang is a measure as much as a far-seeing man may look out, see a beast of burden, and make known that it is black or white.

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English · E. W. West

And the measure of a man is eight medium spans.

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Pahlavi Texts, Part I: The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shâyast Lâ-shâyast, translated by E. W. West. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 5, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. · Source ↗

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