Tower of Silence : or Dokhma: a round structure with a well in the middle, & on the boundaries three rows meant for the bodies of dead adults & children. The bodies are laid bare & are soon consumed by vultures. According to Zoroastrian principles neither fire nor earth should be defiled. The practice seems to go back to its old custom of exposing the dead on mountain tops.
... Wednesday he solemnly declared that "even children themselves are not free from sin," and on the following Sunday discoursed on "Emerson". Poor sage of Concord! Calcutta is going to have a Tower of Silence for the Parsis. The Patrika would, however, seem to hold that it is more needed by our own patriots. They evidently permit writing in that dreadful place. A "veteran" laments the decay ...
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