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	Parsees - LoveToKnow 1911
		PARSEES, or Parsis, the followers in India of Zoroaster (Zarathustra), being the descendants of the ancient Persians who emigrated to India on the conquest of their country by the Arabs in the 8th century.
		In 1901 the total number of Parsees in all India was 94,000, of whom all but 7000 were found in the Bombay presidency and the adjoining state of Baroda, the rest being widely scattered as traders in the large towns.
		The funeral ceremonies of the Parsees are solemn and imposing.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Parsees (2470 words)

	The Parsees
		In 936, a group of Zoroastrians immigrated to Gujarat in India to escape the Muslim prosecution.
		In the 17th century, Parsees moved to Bombay, a port city in Western India.
		The Parsees, both men and women, contributed a great deal to well being of the Indian community.
	www.zoroastriankids.com /936.html (129 words)

	The Parsee People
		Parsees in different parts of the world congregate early every morning to call on the spirits of deceased relatives and ancestral spirits to worship them until sunset.
		These days, during which the Parsee people will be seeking their gods for forgiveness from past sins and cleansing, are a strategic time for us to pray and fast that Jesus reveal Himself and His plan of salvation to the Parsee people.
		The Parsees urgently need our fasting and prayer on their behalf, and especially at this time when so many children are being brought into bondage to the powers of darkness.
	www.feltd.com /parsee3.html (960 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Avesta
		It is similarly used by the Parsee priests to denote the Pahlavi version and commentary, but not the original scriptures.
		Originally, the sacred scriptures of the Parsees were of far greater extent than would appear from the Avesta in the form in which we now possess it.
		For wellnigh five hundred years after the Macedonian invasion the Parsee scriptures remained in a scattered condition, much being preserved only by memory, until the great Zoroastrian under the Sassanian dynasty (A. 226-651), when the texts were again collected, codified, translated into Pahlavi, and interpreted.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02151b.htm (2079 words)

	All consuming faith - 05 August 2000 - New Scientist
		Parsees rely on vultures to dispose of their dead, and the bodies are piling up.
		At Bombay's biggest Parsee funerary site—a high-walled enclosure open to the sky where the dead are laid out—some corpses have lain uneaten for three years, and the stench and possible spread of infection are becoming a problem.
		Parsees are the religious descendants of the Zoroastrians of ancient Persia.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg16722503.400-all-consuming-faith.html (287 words)

	PARSEES, or PARSIS - Online Information article about PARSEES, or PARSIS
		Parsees in all India was 94,000, of whom all but 7000 were found in the Bombay See also:
		Asia; nobody who has a wife living shall marry another, except under peculiar circumstances, such as the barrenness of the living wife, or her immoral conduct.
		admission was not consistent with the practice of the Parsees in India.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PARSEES_or_PARSIS.html (3750 words)

	ireland.com - The Irish Times - FRONT PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Parsee Panchayat or council, which recently installed the eight giant reflectors in the 350-year-old towers to hasten the decomposition of corpses, is also starting a vulture aviary on the premises with help from a British expert.
		The Parsees cannot cremate, bury or submerge their dead in water because they consider a corpse impure and their Zoroastrian faith does not permit them to defile any of the elements.
		Dead Parsees are carried on a simple bier to a ceremonial gate, a short distance from the rounded five Towers of Silence, where their relatives hand them over to the socially outcast kandhiyas or traditional pallbearers, the only ones allowed inside.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2001/0723/fro2.htm (404 words)

	J.J. Modi, The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees, Bombay, 1922
		But, as, with changed circumstances, Parsee houses of today are not what they were before, and as, at present, in storied houses in big towns, the down-floors are generally the worst part of the houses, places of delivery at the down-floor are now-a-days properly condemned as unhealthy.
		It is not unusual for Parsees to enjoin by their last testament or by a Trust, that a certain amount of their wealth may be spent in charity in the way of helping poor brides to marry.
		According to the Parsee custom, a girl's name is always connected with her husband's in religious ceremonies after the betrothal, even if, by some chance or accident, marriage does not take place.
	www.avesta.org /ritual/rcc.htm (17224 words)

	Sunday Times - Star of India
		Parsees can indeed trace their origins back to Persia, but only if they turn the clock back an entire millennium, to the 9th century in most cases, when the first boatloads of persecuted religious refugees from the northern deserts landed on the Gujarati coast.
		Parsees are famous for being good businessmen and for shaping the tireless city of Bombay in their own image.
		One of the many pleasing aspects of the Parsee religion is the entirely optimistic view it has of death.
	www.mr-mercury.co.uk /Sunday_Times_Nov_96.htm (3428 words)

	Of Enduring Interest
		Parsees have always been adventurous and enterprising and many have gone to distant shores to seek their fortunes and wealth and, in a number of cases, settled abroad.
		The police commissioner of Aden, who was a Muslim-turned communist, informed the remaining few Parsees who were looking after the Fire that he would be coming over the next day to personally inspect the Fire and the urn and the box that would be carrying it.
		A number of Parsees followed the same in eight buses plus many went along in their own cars and vehicles (around 60-70 automobiles) and the route was lined with cheering Parsees, praying and expressing their gratitude to the Lord for the safe passage of the Holy Fire.
	www.godrej.com /gstory/change/novdec/unusual_pass.htm (2748 words)

	The Parsees (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They adopted English education and habits with avidity during the British rule and this gave them an advantage over the Banias, as they would engage in any kind of business that came to hand, such as shopkeeping, liquor contracts and timber trade, to which the Marvadis were unable to adapt themselves.
		At present the Parsees base their manner of life very largely on that of the westerners.
		Most Parsees are at present of course either businessmen, industrialists or Government servants, but even then the number of distinguished public men drawn from this small community is surprising.
	www.nagpuronline.com /nagpurcollectorate/people/parsees.html (304 words)

	India : An overview
		Parsees can be found in most northern states of India but are centred around the city of Bombay.
		Parsees are followers of Zarathustra who lived 600 BC at a time the historians call the axis age.
		Parsees are the smallest of the religious minorities in India.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/1818/overview.htm (3672 words)

	Followers debate faith's fade
		Cartoonists commonly caricature the Parsees as dressed in colonial-era garb, spouting Shakespearean prose and swaying to Strauss waltzes.
		Gandhi says he hopes Parsees survive because he "could not live without Parsee jokes or bakeries," which are famous for grumpily serving patrons sweet tea and hot brun pau, a crusty bread.
		Minoo Shroff, chairman of the Bombay Parsee Panchyat (BPP), the community's apex organization, says rich Parsees have endowed numerous secular charities and given more than $500 million to their own community in the form of free housing, education, health care and religious infrastructure.
	www.derafsh-kaviyani.com /english/followersdebatefaith.html (1152 words)

	Death & religion : What Christianity, Hinduism, Islam say about death - Astrology & horoscopes online
		The Parsees (Zoroastrians) do not cremate, bury or submerge their dead in water because they consider the dead to be impure, and their Zoroastrian faith does not permit them to defile any of the elements with them.
		It is common for Parsees to travel long distances to bring their dead to the Mumbai towers (India) because prayers for the dead can only be said for those who have passed through its gates.
		The Zoroastrians, or Parsees, have installed solar reflectors in their Towers of Silence in Mumbai to help dispose of their dead after a decline in the number of vultures that scavenge their corpses in keeping with tradition.
	www.findyourfate.com /deathmeter/religion-death.htm (1641 words)

	J.J. Modi, The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees, Bombay, 1922. Part 3.
		In Bombay, the Parsees not having quite separate quarters, and the city being too thickly populated to arrange for the ceremonial procession, the candidate stays in the fire-temple itself, for the six &ys of the gewrâ.
		The Parsees have no consecration of persons, in the sense in which the word is used among the Christians, e.g., the consecration of a bishop.
		The Parsees have some general toasts, which may be called their "national toasts," and which are now and then proposed at most of their dinners.
	www.avesta.org /ritual/rcc3.htm (18550 words)

	Lies
		The Parsees be they many or few may need Jesus, but this does not negate the need for truth in presentation, and we believe Feroze has purposefully misrepresented his people in his presentations to the Christian world.
		Parsees see the Bible as something from the British culture, but we wonder given (1) that Parsees are ashamed of their dialect, and (2) that Parsees on the whole are very highly educated, if they might not gawk at a translation in Parsee as one might a Bible translation in Ebonics.
		Parsees who have had their Navjote ceremony as a youth wear a shudreh, that is, a kind of white undershirt, and a kusti, that is, a kind of white belt that goes around the shudreh and is tied multiple times a day in prayer ideally while the wearer faces a light source.
	www.ferozegolwalla.com /id52.html (6136 words)

	Vandemataram.com - Modern Bharat (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Greek historians and present day parsees opinion believe that, Zoroaster lived and taught between 4000and 6000 B.C The ancient Iranian culture reached its Zenith under the Achaemenides (550-330 A.D) The empire was presumably stretched from Greece to northern India and from Central Asia to Egypt.
		The exodus of the Parsees is a direct result of the forced Islamization of Iran.
		Though caste consciousness and caste structures have partially been maintained or accepted by Indian Muslims and Christians, the social structure of the Indian Parsee community has remained relatively unaffected by influences from its caste-hindu environment in the course of its 1200 years of association.
	www.vandemataram.com /html/3modbht/settlers1/indxparse.htm (1193 words)

	Informations: Parsism and Jesus Christ
		Today the Parsees with their Holy Scriptures, the Zend Avesta, maintain the original Zoroastrian teachings.
		Some Islamic theologians in Iran also accept the Parsees as "people of the Scriptures" like the Jews and Christians; which means not as "non-believers", but as people believing in the same God, who were often reminded of this God by their prophets.
		In the practices of the Parsees the recitation of the prayers and texts of the Avesta is important.
	www.ways-of-christ.net /topics/parsism.htm (1725 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mumbai, India — A decline in the number of vultures they rely on to devour the corpses of their dead has led Parsees to install giant solar reflectors in the Towers of Silence, to speed their decomposition.
		Parsees, also known as Zoroastrians, traditionally have exposed corpses upon the three-tiered fl stones atop the Towers of Silence, to allow vultures to scavenge them.
		Parsee doctrine holds that corpses contaminate anything they touch.
	www.goodbyemag.com /jul01/news.html (556 words)

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		Early on, Parsees brought fire from Persia (Iran) to light a temple fire in Udwada, India, still the highest spiritual shrine in their practice of the Zoroastrian religion.
		Parsees still excel, prosper and contribute in every area of life all over the world, building temples even in the West.
		The many Parsees of Australia mobilize Parsee activities everywhere in hopes that they will retain their culture and never abandon their Zoroastrian faith.
	www.global-prayer-digest.org /dailydata/getdaily.asp?which=chosenday&whichyear=2006&whichmonth=6&whichday=25 (347 words)

	The Hermitage Guest House, An Eco-Lodge in the Western Ghats
		One such likeness that Parsees and Iranians share is their affinity for meat and eggs, [both Iranian and Parsee cooking use them well], and there is no tradition of vegetarian cooking in either cuisine.
		Parsee food has of course been influenced by the traditions of Indian cooking, notably by the food culture of Western India.
		The Parsees: The Parsees are the Followers of one of the world’s oldest religions, and belong to one of the world’s oldest civilisations.
	www.thehermitageguesthouse.com /food.htm (634 words)

	Teachings of Zoroaster
		In the 19th century the Parsees renewed contact with the remaining Zoroastrians in Iran, the Gabars.
		Parsees, are distinguished for their wealth and education.
		I have heard a story, that when the Parsees came to India, they promised to mingle with the inhabitants, like sugar does with milk.
	dalsabzi.com /books/kids_kahaani/Religions/teachings_of_zoroaster.htm (538 words)

	Zoroastrianism
		Sacred fire in the altar of a temple is a symbol that reminds the Parsee of the glory of Ahura Mazda.
		Reincarnation is not found in the scriptures as accepted by orthodox Parsees, but it is taught in the fragments preserved by the Greeks and in the Desatir.
		Parsees perform prayers for the dead at stated fixed periods.
	www.sivanandadlshq.org /religions/zoroastrianism.htm (1270 words)

	Parsi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Parsi (IPA: [ˈpɑː(ɹ).siː]), sometimes spelled Parsee, is a member of the close-knit Zoroastrian community based in the Indian subcontinent.
		Parsis are descended from Persian Zoroastrians who emigrated to the Indian subcontinent over 1,000 years ago to escape religious persecution after the Islamic conquest (Jhabvalla, 1973).
		The leader of Captain Ahab's secret whaleboat, Fedallah, in the novel 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville is referred to as "the Parsee".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parsi (5073 words)

	Feroz scores thrice as Saki Village Boys trounce All-parsees
		Denzil, the speedy left-winger, was a constant threat to the All Parsees.
		On one of occasion, he dribbled past two defenders and put laid the ball for Lobo, whose drive was collected by Farhad, the All Parsees goalkeeper.Saki Village, who made such a good start to the match, had to wait another 40 minutes before they could add to their tally.
		Parsees has a poor run so far as they have lost their three matches and drawn two in the five they have played.
	expressindia.com /ie/daily/19970818/23050863.html (408 words)

	Parsees protest redevelopment on Tardeo agiary land : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Parsees protest redevelopment on Tardeo agiary land : HindustanTimes.com
		Members of Parsi community fear that the sanctity and ambience of the Kappawala agiary in Tardeo may soon be lost.
		Ironically the trustees of the Bombay Parsee Punchayet (BPP) had also put up their resignation a few months ago following a dispute over the flat allotment in the Baugs (Parsi colonies) highlighting tiffs among Parsees due to property related issues.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1863367,000600010004.htm (799 words)

	About Zoroastrian Religion (CAIS)
		The Parsees, despite having lived in India for over 12 centuries and marriages with native Indians, they have maintained their religious distinctiveness, possibly because Zoroastrians do not proselytize.
		A miniscule minority in India (less than.01% of the population), the Parsees have influenced the country well out of proportion to their numbers.
		Under British rule in the 19th century, the Parsees became the earliest Indian industrialists and built the first great Indian industrial projects-shipbuilding, aviation, steel, textiles, chemicals and nuclear energy, and have excelled in the arts and sciences.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Religions/iranian/Zarathushtrian/about_zoroastrianism.htm (2029 words)

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