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Parsees
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E . inhabitants of Pars or Persia), a name given to the disciples of Zoroaster or their descendants in Persia and India, and sometimes called Guebres; in India they number some 90,000, are to be found chiefly in the Bombay Presidency, form a wealthy community, and are engaged mostly in commerce; in religion they incline to deism, and pay homage to the sun as the symbol of the deity; they neither bury their dead nor burn them, but expose them apart in the open air, where they are left till the flesh is eaten away and only the bones remain, to be removed afterwards for consignment to a subterranean cavern.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Parsees'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/parsees.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Parsees'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/parsees.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
