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FAROHARS

to them at the end of every year, but the Pahlavi works expressly speak of the souls descending to the earth on these days, as well as on the anniversaries of their bodily death.[1] A passage speaks of the souls as coming on their anniversaries, accompanied by nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Farohars from heaven as their guests, just as men do on earth.[2]

  1. ↑ Phl. Vd. 8 22; Sd. 37. 1–12.
  2. ↑ Sd. 13. 3.
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