From what started out as a concerned enquiry into the correctness of prayer books, matters have ballooned into unseemly spats ("Errors in Prayer books,” Readers’ Forum, Parsiana, February 7, 2016). The explanations of our kusti rite by a teaching priest and Cyrus Meherji were mind-bogglingly appalling.
Why is everything devotional attributed solely to Dastur Adarbad Marespand? Are there no other Sasanian high prelates in Meherji’s ken? No anonymous religiocultural guides from Valakhsh V’s times? No Tosar/Tansar? No Kirdir (the fearsome "improver” of erring priests)? And most missed of all, Weh-Shahpuhr who was made responsible, under Khosro Anoshagruwan/Anushirwan, for the partitioning of......