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- Avesta -- Zoroastrian Archives Contents Prev funeral.htm Next Glossary The Funeral Ceremonies of the Parsees Their origin and explanation by Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, B.A., Ph.D., C.I.E. Fourth Edition Bombay, 1928. This paper was read before the Anthropological Society of Bombay, at its Monthly Meeting of Wednesday, the 30th September 1891. It was at first reprinted from the Journal of the ...www.avesta.org/ritual/funeral.htm