A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . Cu^fyrmSoiise^ oUo Bandar JJfijddLe GrouaxdOSKoaL r .. ,. , K~^--^ fit House SassoonsJfock \)OysterRx)ckBattery BOMBAY Scale of Miles 1\ London. Johii jVftLrrAy: AHjemarle Street. ROUTE I. MALABAR HILL—TOWERS OF SILENCE 17 a flight of eighty steps mountsup to a gateway in an inner this point the visitor is accom-panied by an official of the Panchayat,and turning to the right comes to astone building, where, during funerals,prayer is offered. At a Parsi funeralthe bier is carried up the steps byfour Nasr Salars, or Carr
A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . . Cu^fyrmSoiise^ oUo Bandar JJfijddLe GrouaxdOSKoaL r .. ,. , K~^--^ fit House SassoonsJfock \)OysterRx)ckBattery BOMBAY Scale of Miles 1\ London. Johii jVftLrrAy: AHjemarle Street. ROUTE I. MALABAR HILL—TOWERS OF SILENCE 17 a flight of eighty steps mountsup to a gateway in an inner this point the visitor is accom-panied by an official of the Panchayat,and turning to the right comes to astone building, where, during funerals,prayer is offered. At a Parsi funeralthe bier is carried up the steps byfour Nasr Salars, or Carriers ofthe Dead, and followed by twobearded men, and a large number ofParsi mourners in white robes walkingtwo and two in procession. Thebearded men who come next thebier are the only persons who enterthe Tower. On leaving the Tower,after depositing the corpse on thegrating within, they proceed to thepurifying place, where they wash andleave the clothes they have worn in atower built for that express general mourners have theirclothes li
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