Avesta Pahlavi And Ancient Persian Studies In Honour Of The Late Shams Ul Ulama Dastur Peshotanji Behramji Sanjana Ma Phd PDF Download

Excerpt from Avesta, Pahlavi, and Ancient Persian Studies, Vol. 1: In Honour of the Late Shams-Ul-Ulama Dastur Peshotanji Behramji Sanjana, M.A., Ph.D This Memorial Volume has been compiled in appreciation and commemoration of the persevering, judicious, and successful labours of the late Shams-ul-Ulama Dastur Peshotanji Behramji Sanjana, M.A., Ph.D., in the wide and perplexing field of Iranian research. Belonging to the Sanjana family, he was probably a descendant of one of the Parsi priests who accompanied the first fugitive immigrants from Persia and settled at Sanjan. At an early age he was adopted into the family of the well-known Dastur Edalji Sanjana's only -brother;and, after the death of that predecessor, in 1857, he was appointed high-priest of the Shahanshahi Parsis in Bombay, which dignity he worthily held till the day of his death (26th December 1898) at the age of 70 years. His succession to the high-priesthood occurred at a time when the steady advance of European education, among the Parsis in Bombay, was making them dissatisfied with the limited knowledge of the priests supplied to them by the Dasturs of Navsari, by whom all such appointments were then made, and it was not till 1883 that Dastur Peshotanji was able to overcome the opposition of the Navsari priesthood, and to establish his right to initiate priests, and give them orders for practising as priests in Bombay. He published several pamphlets (such as his Tafsir-i Gah-i GasanT, Tafsr-i Galuinbar, Nirang-i Javlt-dinan, etc) with the view of eliminating certain irregular practices and customs (some of which still continue) and of preserving the truth and punty of his religion. His success, in such controversial efforts, appears to have been chiefly due to his conciliatory firmness and his readiness to accept judicious compromise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.