...idolaters, for they worship fire and serpents and trees also, and here they do not bury the dead, but carry them with great pomp to the fields and cast them to the beasts and birds to be devoured." As the natives of India either burn or bury their dead, the above must apply to the Parsis, who subsequently...

...century, a passage which says that at that recent date the Farsees of Thana then carried their dead with great pomp to the fields, and cast them to the beasts and birds to be devoured (i. 40).* The denuded skeletons in the dakhma soon become perfectly desiccated by the influences of...

...people (at Thana) were, according to him, idolaters, for they worshipped fire, serpents, and trees, and did not bury their dead, but carried them with great pomp to the fields, and cast them down as food for population 350,332 souls (1872). There are about 3,116 Parsis there, nearly all traders...

...which they call loahe1, and which is very intoxicating. And here they do not bury the dead, but carry them with great pomp to the fields, and cast them to the beasts and birds to be devoured. And they have here very fine oxen ; which have horns a good half pace in length [girth ?], and have...

...thereof (Thana) are idolators, for they worship fire... and here they do not bury the dead, but carry them with great pomp to the fields, and cast them to the beasts and birds to be devoured." (CH Yule's Cathay Vol. I, p. 5759). Rustam Mihrapan wrote two Pahlavi Yasnas, two Pahlavi Vendidads,...

...they call loahe, ind which is very intoxicating. And here they do not bury the dead but carry them in great pomp to the fields, and cast them to the beasts and birds to be devoured. And they have here very fine oxen which have horns a good half pace in length, and have a hump on .the...