Download or read book The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees (Classic Reprint) written by Jivanji Jamshedji Modi and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees This book has grown out of the work of study, undertaken for the Dictionary of Religion and Ethics published by Dr. Hastings. In his letter dated 26th December 1905, Dr. Hastings, invited me to be a contributor to his Dictionary on the subject of Parsee Religious Ceremonies and customs. A complete compendium of all the Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees was wanting. So, on receiving the above invitation, I. Proposed' to go thoroughly into the study of the whole subject, and this book is the result. Here and there, I have re-cast the subjects as originally written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.