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See you along with your family members and friends at the oldest Agiary in Mumbai – Banaji Limji Agiary, quietly tucked behind Flora Fountain, Fort Area, Mumbai at 10am
Followed by Bun Maska + Chai at Military Cafe closeby.

Let’s nourish the soul… and the stomach.

SUNDAY 10TH MAY – Jashan will start around 10am. We should get sukhad and money for divo. Donations for agiary maintenance/functioning are welcome. Then around 11.30am we can all walk to military cafe (specially opening on Sunday for us) closeby for bun maska and chai.

If coming, do also Join the WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DpTS5WM1Jqu0Su8XSztsiZ?mode=gi_t – for easy coordination

Pray Together. Stay Together. Eat Together.

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2. Saras Saothi Kharo Rehber

3. Jagna Dukhne Harnara Re

4. Jarthoti to Tene Kahiye

5. Mahtab Sam Madhuro

6. Insan Nazerne Samji Le

7. Aatashni Monajata

8. Karo Manoranjan
(Courtesy : Dali Palkhiwala)
9. O Mara Kakaji

10. Daddy Daddy – Ghoro Karao

11. Ame Parsi Ame Great

12. Mane Vahla Re Vahla

13. Pak Asho Jarthost Hamaro

14. Chhaiye Ame Jarthosti
(Courtesy : Zoroastrian Studies)

Music Arranger : Jamshed Kotwal
Compere : Shahrukh Sadri
Singers : Mani Mulla, Zarin Variava, Shilloo Shroff/ Bepsi Gyara, Viraf Daruwala, Shahrukh Sadri & Jamshed Kotwal
Musicians : Jimmy Sahiyar, Julius, Manuel, Romeo, Sudhir & Sunil

Conceived & Circulated by : Jamshed Kotwal,

Supported by :
W.Z.O. Trust, Zoroastrian Studies,
Mumbal Parsl Panchayet,
Seth Jamshed N. Guzdar,
Gool & Dr. Roshan Ghaswala.

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The Zoroastrian World March 2026 The Zoroastrian World is a monthly newsletter that shares key news, events, opportunities and publications from across the study of Zoroastrianism. If you are not already subscribed to the SSPIZS mailing list, please sign up here.

From the Institute Actors Natasha Atherton & Simon Rivers © Jeffrey Choy, 2026. We were delighted to host Home, Elsewhere: Objects That Carry Us at SOAS, an evocative theatre performance emerging from the Cosmos, Memory, Scale residency. Through intimate storytelling and carefully crafted staging, the piece explored how everyday objects and domestic ritual spaces carry memory, identity, and belonging across generations and migrations. Bringing together artistic practice and research, the performance offered a moving reflection on Zoroastrian lived experience and the meanings embedded in material culture. The evening concluded with a thoughtful discussion and reception, extending the conversations sparked on stage. Our thanks to the artists, collaborators, and all who joined us for this memorable event. Please join for the next on 30 June at the Zoroastrian Centre in London. Details to follow. Birds, wings and diadems: Zoroastrian symbols in Parthian and Sasanian art The next Kutar Memorial Lecture will take place on 30 April 2026 at 6:00 pm, in KLT at SOAS. Dr Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis will deliver the key address, and though registration is not mandatory, we encourage attendees to sign up to capacity plan. To read the abstract and register, click the link here Click on the image above to view the trailer for Mobed: The Parsi Priest! The premiere of the documentary will take place at 4.30 pm on 10 May at the Zoroastrian Centre, Harrow. You can register by emailing malcolm_deboo@yahoo.co.uk and further information can be found here. Manashni, Gavashni, Kunashni: a musical journey into Zoroastrian identity on the 29 May is now sold out. Hosted by Nina Wadia OBE, the concert will feature newly commissioned works and familiar classics, offering audiences a musical journey through the sounds, histories and cultural resonances of Zoroastrianism. Performers will include baritone Frazan Kotwal, violinist Fra Rustumji, pianist Firoze Madon, Amir Massoumian, the Ava Choir and composers Kahan Taraporevala and Raiomond Mirza. You can add your name to the waiting list using this link.  Professor Almut Hintze will speak at the Consciousness Perspectives Forum on Monday, 13 July 7.30pm. Titled “The concepts of Good and Evil in Zoroastrianism” this lecture will be streamed through Zoom. Against the backdrop of Zoroastrian cosmology, it discusses questions about the radically different nature of Good and Evil, the Zoroastrian concept of creation and the role and responsibility of human beings in the world. Register here. Save the date!  On 8 October, 2026 the Institute will host the book launch of the Zoroastrian World. The editors and contributors will deliver a short presentation, followed by Q&A and reception. Details to follow. The recording of “Creating sustainable data resources: Digital Data Training Workshop” is available to view on YouTube! Events University of Bergen, in collaboration with University of Strasbourg and La Sapienza University of Rome, organises a summer school in the last week of August in Rome, focused on Avestan texts, Mithras and Mithraism. Further details here.The Fifteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference will be held at Utretch University from 5- 8 August 2026. For further details, head to the AIS website. Opportunities The British Institute of Persian Studies invites applications for Travel Grants, and for Research and Research Assistant Grants. Awards of up to £1,200 will be considered for Student Travel Awards. Grants of up to £5,000 for Research Awards and Research Assistant Awards are invited, from PIs associated with a UK based HEI. The deadline is 18 May 2026, 5:00 pm GMT. For more information and to download the application form, visit BIPS Grants page. The TISS ParZor Online Certificate Program on Culture & Civilisation: A Zoroastrian Perspective is taking place this term. This learning experience on Zoroastrianism is guided by voices that shape how culture and heritage are understood, preserved and lived. There is rolling admission for this course. For more details, contact- +918007999490 / email tiss.parzor@gmail.com. Publications Sovereignty in Iran Challenges to Eurocentrism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic edited by Shabnam J. Holliday This book is a collaborative project examining sovereignties as a plural concept through the case of Iran. In so doing it challenges Eurocentric assumptions in the Humanities and Social Sciences and covers sovereignty from ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic. Read more. Indo-Aryans in the Bronze Age By Stanislav Grigoriev This book challenges the steppe-origin theory of Indo-Aryans, arguing their homeland was in NW Iran. Using linguistic, genetic, and archaeological data, it traces migrations from Iran to Central Asia, India, and beyond during the 3rd millennium BC, shaping Indo-Aryan dialects. Read more. About Us If you would like to give a gift to the Institute via the Centres and Institutes – regular gift | SOAS service, we would be grateful for your donation. Patrons can now donate regularly or as a one-off payment. These funds will ensure the continued running of the Institute and an expansion of our activities. We remain incredibly grateful for the support of all our stakeholders, donors and community members. The SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies was launched in June 2018 thanks to the generous donation from a Parsi benefactor, Mr Shapoor Pallonji Mistry, in the name of his father, Mr Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry. The Institute’s Annual Report for the academic year 2024-25 is available to view on our website. It covers all of the activities fof the Institute, including events, research and teaching. Find out more.  Visit our website to find out more about the Institute.

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A carefully prepared edition of the Khordeh Avesta, published under the guidance of Dastur Firoze M. Kotwal and edited by Mr. Kerman D. Daruwalla.
* Includes a General Understanding of all prayers
* Contains 5 Nyāishes and 8 Yashts
* Provides clear instructions on the proper recitation of prayers.

Price: ₹1000

Available at:
Zoroastrian Studies
K.R. Cama Oriental Inst. Bldg., Ground floor, 136 Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, (Opp. Lion Gate), Bombay 400 001.
Tel: +91 9136619535
Days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
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The Avestan Digital Archive (ADA) is a digital archive that endeavours to make all available Avestan language manuscripts containing Zoroastrian liturgies accessible online. As such, it strives to be a fundamental tool for philological work for the scholars engaging with Avestan texts that complements current and future editions. Furthermore, it provides the most complete overview of Zoroastrian liturgical variety between the 13th and 19th centuries.

ADA gathers digital copies of around 200 Avestan manuscripts (with 164 containing different variants of the Zoroastrian Long Liturgy), hosted in different public and private libraries worldwide. Most manuscripts have been digitised by the ADA team as a result of numerous journeys to India and Iran since 2010. Others have been purchased from public libraries for academic use and display in ADA. Some pictures are generous donations from public and private owners.

Our database of manuscripts , created in collaboration with the Corpus Avesticum Berolinense (CAB), currently gathers information on over a thousand manuscripts. Many of them are either in unknown locations or hosted in libraries that do notallow the publication of digital copies. Currently, the number of manuscripts published onlineis close to 100, but we are working on publishing the remainder of the digitized manuscripts.The collection contains good specimens of all types of manuscripts concerning the texts anddifferent transmission lines. For the Long Liturgy, ADA provides a better sample ofmanuscripts than the standard edition by Karl Friedrich Geldner (Avesta. The Sacred Books ofthe Parsis. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1886). Regarding the Short Liturgies, the goal is to achieve a level of manuscript variety and richness similar to those of the Long Liturgy.

One of the most relevant features of ADA is that it has published online a significant number of Avestan manuscripts produced in Iran. Only a few Avestan manuscripts produced in Iran were known when the standard editions of the Avestan texts were prepared in the 19th century. The situation remained the same throughout the 20 th century. However, Katayoun Mazdapour published a seminal paper (“Čand Dastnewis-e Nouyāfte-Ye Awestā.” Nāme-Ye Irān Bāstān 8 (2008): 3–10) in which she brought to light twelve then-unknown manuscripts. Since then, the focus of ADA has been oriented toward the Avestan manuscripts produced in Iran and still preserved there. Fortunately, almost all manuscripts unearthed in the last two decades are available on ADA.

The manuscripts published online are displayed either as complete navigable manuscripts (most of which are accompanied by a transliteration) or by passages. The latter feature shows the corresponding folio of all manuscripts available online in ADA that contain the passage. The results list is ordered according to manuscript classes. The manuscripts are ordered chronologically within each class when the date is known. This way, the user quickly and easily finds a thorough overview of the transmission history for each single passage. Furthermore, ADA has created its own sigla system to classify the manuscripts (also used in CAB), that enables grouping according to the texts they contain, the place of copy (India vs. Iran), typology (liturgical vs. exegetical) and date (see sigla ).

Click Here to visit this wonderful resource

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