Monajats helped to bond families through music
Dr Shernaz Cama
Excerpts from a paper titled "Cultural Memory: Interesting Narratives in the Contemporary World” at the International Conference from January 12-15, 2013 on Celebrating a Treasure: 140 Years at the First Dastoor Meherjirana Library, Navsari.
Very little is known about the origin or creation of monajats. Persian, old Gujarati and Parsi Gujarati monajats are found in manuscripts at the Meherjirana Library in Navsari but their dates and authors are often omitted. A few are ascribed to a Dara Pahlon (Persian in Avesta script), some to the Dastur JamaspAsa family, Dastur Erachji Meherjirana (between 1840-1860) and some to Behdin Navroji Meherji Homji (1809).......