Variety of Ancient Iranian Burial based on Šāh-nāma

Document Type : Research Paper

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Department of Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

10.30465/cpl.2023.45370.3206

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For a logical perception of religious studies it is very important to pay attention to the life customs. One of these issues in ancient Iranian religion, especially Zoroastrian religion, is the type of burial which has been in the Zoroastrian religion, since the presence of Iranians in Central Asia and then entering the Iranian plateau up to the beginning of the 1stPahlavi monarch, "exposure burial". The latter term means putting the dead body in the open air, and after removing the flesh and skin, the bones are placed in a special place known as “bone-receptacle, ossuary” (MP. astōdān NP. stōdānستودان ). Important sources regarding this type of burial in Zoroastrian religious books, namely Avesta and its jurisprudential section, Pahlavi Zoroastrian jurisprudence and legal sources which are related to the third and fourth centuries of H., reports of Greek and Roman historians and Syriac testimonies that have a Christian background, sources Historical and literary and sometimes jurisprudential period of Islamic Iran, Persian and Arabian, Zoroastrian living communities in Iran and India, reports of foreign travelers from Safavid to Qajar era and inscriptional and archeological findings of the last two centuries. Ferdowsī's Šāh-nāma is one of these important sources.

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Classical Persian Literature

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Available Online from 31 August 2023

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