The winged symbol Fravashi seen in the Parsi Agiary (firetemple) Mumbai, India is mostly observed in the ruins of ancient Iran.
The Zoroastrians arrived on the Gujarati coast in India in the 10th century after the Arabian conquest of Iran. By the 17th century most had settled in Bombay where they are known as Parsees. Fravashi (Faravahar or Faroharis) has been incorrectly interpreted by many western authors to be the figure of Ahura Mazda Lord of Wisdom (Ohrmazd or Ohrmuzd) the only one God of the Zarathustrians( Zoroastrians). The Achaemenid kings Darius and Xerses adopted this symbol to indicate that they had received glory and sovereignty from Ahura Mazda There is no trace of it during the other dynasties in Iran
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Location: Parsi Agiary, Mumbai, India
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