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Book at Amazon.com   p. 210   1. As to the sixty-sixth question
and reply, that which you ask is thus: What is this appearance 1
which is girded on the sky?  2. The reply is this, that it is a
mingling of the brilliance of the sun with mist and cloud that
is seen, of which it is at all times and seasons, moreover, a
characteristic appearance, whereby it has become their sign
above from spiritual to earthly beings.  3. That which is
earthly is the water above to which its brilliance is
acceptable; and the many brilliant colours (gunakân) which are
formed from that much mingling 2 of brilliance and water, and
are depicted (mânâkî-aîtŏ), are the one portion for appearing 3.
210:1 Reading dîdanŏîh; but the word can also be read sad-vanîh,
which might stand for sad-gûnîh,' a hundred-coloured existence,'
a possible term for the rainbow, but the Persian dictionaries
give no nearer term than sadkas, or sadkês.  210:2 M14 has 'that
mingling of many portio