Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . e constructed. .They commence from the wall of the bhandar and pass beyond theoutside of the tower down into four wells, sunk into the ground atequal distances. At the mouth of each drain charcoal and sand areplaced for purifying the fluid before it enters the ground, thus ol)-serving one of the tenets of the Zoroastrian religion that themother earth shall not be defiled. The wells have a pcrmealilebottom, which is covered with sand to a height of five or sev
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . e constructed. .They commence from the wall of the bhandar and pass beyond theoutside of the tower down into four wells, sunk into the ground atequal distances. At the mouth of each drain charcoal and sand areplaced for purifying the fluid before it enters the ground, thus ol)-serving one of the tenets of the Zoroastrian religion that themother earth shall not be defiled. The wells have a pcrmealilebottom, which is covered with sand to a height of five or seven Dakhmas, or Towers of Silence, are built upon one plan, buttheir size may and does When the Parsis begin to buihl a Dakhma, . . they fixnails in the ground and enclose it by a thread, indicating thereby * Dosabhai Framji Karaka, History of the Parsis, vol. I.,jjp. 200 and ff. f Dimensions of the Dakhma at Navsari : interior diameter, 62feet ; outer diameter (from the outside of the wall), 70 feet ; diameterof the bhandar, 20 feet ; maximum height of tlie tower, 16 feet;height of granite platform, 8 SKCTKJN. TOIAI, HEIGIll AHOUT l6 1-EKT.
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