THE PARSI RELIGION

Name : THE PARSI RELIGION

Author : John Wilson

Book Format : Paperback

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9788121262583

Language : English

Pages : 601-700 Pages

Publish Year : 2022

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

About the Book : -The Religion of the Parsis, notwithstanding the puerilities and absurdities with which it is now associated, is substantially the same in its general principles at the present day, that it was in the ages of antiquity. As that of the united hosts of Medas and Persians, who were providentially instrumental in the destruction of the mightly power of Babylon and the deliverance of the Jews, the favoured despositaries of divine knowledge during the general apostasy of the world from God, who in the noon-day splender of their reign, ruled over the larger portion of the Greater and Lesser Asia-who attempted to crush the infant liberties of Europe in the Grecian States,-who carried their victorious arms to the north of Africa, and usurped for a season the rule of the Pharaohs in the land of Egypt. About the Author:- John Wilson FRS (11 December 1804 – 1 December 1875) was a Scottish Christian missionary, orientalist and educator in the Bombay presidency, British India. In 1828 he married Margaret Bayne and together they went as Christian missionaries of the Scottish Missionary Society to Bombay, India, arriving on 13 February 1829. He is the founder of Wilson College, Mumbai and Bombay University. He was also the president of the Asiatic Society of Bombay from 1835 to 1842; and was elected Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland in 1870. Wilson was the author of many

Country of Origin : India