The vara of Yima in Vendidad 2 is the Iranian flood story with the flood replaced by a winter. Ahura Mazda warns Yima that a devastating winter is coming with snow to a great depth and that most life will perish, and instructs him to build an underground enclosure a horse-race long on each side, and to bring into it the seed of every kind of animal, plant and human, along with fire, water and food, so that life can be restored afterwards. The passage's uncomfortable feature is the admissions criteria, which the text states plainly: bring the best and finest of each kind, and do not bring anyone hunchbacked, or with a bodily defect, or impotent, or mad, or leprous, or bearing any of a list of marks. Modern readers notice this immediately and the tradition has generally handled it by not dwelling on it. Yima himself later falls, in the standard account, through lying or through pride, and loses the divine glory.