. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . DOMESTIC RELATIONS 387 simply rejects them, or, if he chooses, goes over to Islam. Forthat reason, as I learned, cases of breach of promise and divorceoccur even in the circle of the faithful, and certain other vices,which I need not mention, also exist; but the main body ofthe Zoroastrian community is making earnest efforts to eradi-cate these evils from their midst and to uphold the high idealsset by their religion. The funeral rites of the Zoroastrians in Yezd are practicallya cont
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . DOMESTIC RELATIONS 387 simply rejects them, or, if he chooses, goes over to Islam. Forthat reason, as I learned, cases of breach of promise and divorceoccur even in the circle of the faithful, and certain other vices,which I need not mention, also exist; but the main body ofthe Zoroastrian community is making earnest efforts to eradi-cate these evils from their midst and to uphold the high idealsset by their religion. The funeral rites of the Zoroastrians in Yezd are practicallya continuation of the ancient customs of the A vesta andsubstantially the same as those of the Parsis in India, but withminor points of difference due either to local conditions orto present circumstances as contrasted with the past. Sincenothing in detail has been written in English regarding thesemortuary ceremonies of the Modern Gabars in Iran, I shalldevote some space to the subject, making occasional compari-sons with the more familiar Parsi customs in India and theancient rites of the Avesta.^ When a pers
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