PAVRY, BAPSY CURSETJI (b. 1902; d. Bombay, India, 1995; PLATE I), daughter of Parsi Zoroastrian Dastur Cursetji Erachji Pavry (1859-1947)….

PAVRY, BAPSY CURSETJI (b. 1902; d. Bombay, India, 1995; PLATE I), daughter of Parsi Zoroastrian Dastur Cursetji Erachji Pavry (1859-1947)….

CHILDREN i. Childbirth in Zoroastrianism The Zoroastrian community has traditionally regarded marriage as having a threefold function: to propagate the…

DIVORCE, legal termination of marriage. In the following series of articles only those communities are taken into consideration which are…

INVESTITURE of kings, the ceremonies and symbolic actions used to assert the assumption of rulership and to elicit affirmation of…

ZOROASTER vii. AS PERCEIVED BY LATER ZOROASTRIANS This entry treats the development of the concept and image of Zoroaster among…