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Tower Of Silence:
A dakhma, also known as the Tower of Silence, is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation – that is, the exposure of dead human bodies to the elements for decay in order to avert contamination of the soil with the corpses. Carrion birds, usually vultures and other scavengers would typically consume the flesh and the skeletal remains would have been left in the pit.

Zoroastrian exposure of the dead is first attested in the mid-5th century BCE Histories of Herodotus, but the use of towers is first documented in the early 9th century CE. The doctrinal rationale for exposure is to avoid contact with Earth, Water, or Fire, all three of which are considered sacred in the Zoroastrian religion.

One of the earliest literary descriptions of such a building appears in the late 9th-century Epistles of Manushchihr, where the technical term is astodan, "ossuary". Another technical term that appears in the 9th/10th-century texts of Zoroastrian tradition (the so-called "Pahlavi books") is dakhmag, for any place for the dead.

The modern-day towers, which are fairly uniform in their construction, have an almost flat roof, with the perimeter being slightly higher than the centre. The roof is divided into three concentric rings: the bodies of men are arranged around the outer ring, women in the second circle, and children in the innermost ring. Once the bones have been bleached by the sun and wind, which can take as long as a year, they are collected in an ossuary pit at the centre of the tower, where – assisted by lime – they gradually disintegrate, and the remaining material – with run-off rainwater – runs through multiple coal and sand filters before being eventually washed out to sea.

Parsis:
Parsis (/ˈpɑːrsiː/) or Parsees (lit. 'Persian' in the Persian language), are an ethnoreligious group who migrated to the Indian subcontinent from Persia during the Muslim conquest of Persia of 633–654 CE; one of two such groups to have done so, with the other being Iranis. Zoroastrianism is the ethnic religion of the Parsi people. According to the Qissa-i Sanjan, Parsis migrated from the Sasanian Empire to Gujarat, where they were given refuge between the 8th and 10th centuries CE to escape persecution following the Muslim conquests.

At the time of the Muslim conquest of Persia (also known as Iran), the dominant religion of the region (then ruled by the Sasanian Empire) was Zoroastrianism. Many Iranians, such as Babak Khorramdin, rebelled against the Muslim conquerors in Persia for almost 200 years, while other Iranians (who are now called Parsis since their migration to the Indian subcontinent) chose to preserve their religious identities by fleeing from Persia to India during this time.

The word Parsi is derived from the Persian language, and literally translates to Persian (Modern Standard Persian: پارسیان‎, 'Pārsiān' – i.e. 'Pārsi'). Farsi, which is used as the local defining name for the Persian language, is the Arabized form of the word Parsi; the language sees widespread use in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and other regions of the former Persian empires.

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