Oct 12, 2006: Added chapters 10-11 of Modi's Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees.
(consecration of the towers of silence, consecration of the ritual objects (alat).
August 19, 2006: Added chapters 7-9 of Modi's Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees.
(initiation ceremonies, consecration of the sacred fires).
May 5, 2006: Added
Fire in Avesta, by Ervad Gustad Panthaki (Used with permission)
May 5, 2006: Added
Atash Neyayesh, by Ervad Brigadier Behram Maneckshah Panthaki (Used with permission)
March 24, 2006: Added chapter 6 of Modi's Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees.
(purification in daily life).
January 4, 2006. Added Presentations on Jashan by Soli Dastur (Rituals section).
October 22, 2005: Added chapter 5 of Modi's Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees. (Barashnom and Riman ceremonies of purification).
July 27, 2005: Added
Teach Yourself Avesta Language by Dr. Ervad Ramiyar Parvez Karanjia (2005)
Used with the kind permission of Dr. Karanjia, Principal of Dadar Athornan Madressa in Mumbai India.
July 8, 2005: Added chapter 4 of Modi's Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees.
Expanded and reformatted glossary.
September 4, 2004: Added Bejon N. Desai's books
Learning Avesta Compendium (2003) and Learning Avesta Manual (2004). Used with permission
kindly acquired by the help of Nader M. Patel, Mumbai, and scanned by Soli Dastur.
March 11, 2003: Added Chatterji's translation of the Gathas. Kindly contributed by the
Calcutta Parsi Anjuman and Sohrabji Panthaky, and scanned by Soli Dastur.
Jan 11, 2003: Consolidated
Avestan dictionary into a single file for easier searching.
08/01/2000: Avesta and Pahlavi fonts are now online at:
(http://cnes.cla.umn.edu/resources/IranianPages/avesta_fonts.htm) THE MINNESOTA IRANIAN FONT FAMILY
01/12/2000: Added Qissa-i Sanjan.
Updated new and forthcoming books list to include
Ichaporia, Pallan and Helmut Humbach, Concordance of the Gathas,
With Gathic Avesta, Pahlavi and Sanskrit Texts, Translations, and Commentary.
Harrassowitz, Germany.
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