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PREFACE

for the kindly patronage which they have been good enough to accord to the following discourse. Besides, I cannot submit to the public judgment this my humble share in ascertaining the Zoroastrian position with regard to the question of next-of-kin marriages in old Irân, without professing briefly my obligations to the devoted authorities that guide the destinies of the Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai Zartoshti Madresa (an Institution unrivalled in its cultivation of difficult Pahlavi studies), especially to the Trustees who are presided over by the most worthy head of the Zoroastrian Community, Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai, Bart., C.S.I., for the kindly encouragement which they have always been pleased to offer me in my Zend-Avestâ and Pahlavi studies. Chiefly, however, I have to acknowledge my heartfelt gratitude to Mr. Kharsedji Fardunji Parakh, who endowed that Institution more than twenty years ago with the magnificent

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