Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . of Bombay, whose op-portunities have been many. In their domestic relations the Zoroastrians of Yezd aremonogamists, as a rule, but bigamy and even polygamy,which they attribute to the influence of their Mohammedansurroundings, were not uncommon in former times. The sen-timent of the Zoroastrian community, as was evident fromtwo particular instances which they cited, is distinctly againstdual marriages, even in cases where the first wife has borne nochild to the husband, and for a woman
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . of Bombay, whose op-portunities have been many. In their domestic relations the Zoroastrians of Yezd aremonogamists, as a rule, but bigamy and even polygamy,which they attribute to the influence of their Mohammedansurroundings, were not uncommon in former times. The sen-timent of the Zoroastrian community, as was evident fromtwo particular instances which they cited, is distinctly againstdual marriages, even in cases where the first wife has borne nochild to the husband, and for a woman to commit. bigamywould mean death. The cause of the difficulty of enforcingthe standards of the Zoroastrian faith and preventing infringe-ments of the marriage law is found in the force of the Moslemexample that prevails around them. A Zoroastrian who isunwilling to abide by priestly regulations in such matters 1 On the law of equality of the wife trian Women in Remote Antiquity, asin Ancient Iran, see Barab Dastur illustrated in the Avesta, pp. 35-42,Peshotan Sanjana, Position of Zoroas- Bombay,
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