Vourukasha
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Vourukasha, also known as Warkash or Fraxkard, is the world ocean in Zoroastrian cosmology and Iranian mythology. In addition to its role in mythology, it may also have referred to real-world places at different times.
==Name== The ocean appears in Avestan texts as Vourukasha with the meaning having many inlets. In the Middle Persian texts, the ocean is called Warkash or Fraxkard (). Here, Warkash is the Middle Persian rendering of the Avestan term, whereas Fraxkard is a translation from Avestan. It consists of frax, meaning vast, and kard, meaning bay or inlet.
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