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The only Ariana we know is Strabo's Ariana, whose Geography describes its limits precisely: to the east the Indus, to the south the Arabian Sea, and to the west an irregular line...

— Gherardo Gnoli

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The only possible identification of Airyana Vaejah must point to the great Hindukus mountain range.

All this gives Sistan a central role regarding the origins of Zoroastrianism, as it is almost presented to us as the Zoroastrian land par excellence.

This would probably be the first known case of transposition from east to west of a sacred place in the Zoroastrian tradition...

As a matter of fact all this is due to a persistent effort to make accounts work out at all costs according to the logic of a pre-established plan.

The geographical framework of Vd. I is entirely that of eastern Iran.

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