Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Самарканд" in Russian language version.
There is further geographical interest to be found in another passage from the Avesta Yt. 10.13-14, where the whole region inhabited by the Aryans (airyō.šayana-) is described. The description begins with Mount Harā, the peak of which is reached by Mithra as he precedes the immortal sun: The entire Aryan homeland, according to this passage, consisted of the districts of Iškata and Peruta, Margiana and Areia, Gava, Sogdiana, and Chorasmia. The names of Sogdiana, Suxδəm, and Chorasmia, Xᵛāirizəm, appear here, as E. Benveniste has demonstrated (“L’Ērān-vḕž et l’origine legendaire des iraniens,” BSOAS 7, 1933-35, pp. 269f.), in Medo-Iranian forms; this suggests that they were later additions (G. Gnoli, “Airyō.šayana,” RSO 41, 1966, p. 68; idem, De Zoroastre à Mani, p. 21).
There is further geographical interest to be found in another passage from the Avesta Yt. 10.13-14, where the whole region inhabited by the Aryans (airyō.šayana-) is described. The description begins with Mount Harā, the peak of which is reached by Mithra as he precedes the immortal sun: The entire Aryan homeland, according to this passage, consisted of the districts of Iškata and Peruta, Margiana and Areia, Gava, Sogdiana, and Chorasmia. The names of Sogdiana, Suxδəm, and Chorasmia, Xᵛāirizəm, appear here, as E. Benveniste has demonstrated (“L’Ērān-vḕž et l’origine legendaire des iraniens,” BSOAS 7, 1933-35, pp. 269f.), in Medo-Iranian forms; this suggests that they were later additions (G. Gnoli, “Airyō.šayana,” RSO 41, 1966, p. 68; idem, De Zoroastre à Mani, p. 21).
