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Bickering in Bharuch

The sacred fire of the Pestonji Aslaji Doongaji Agiary in Bharuch, which was to have been relocated to the new fire temple in Koparkhairane, New Bombay, is destined to remain in Gujarat, at least for now despite the woeful lack of worshippers in that Gujarat city. There are 100 residents and four fire temples in the south Gujarat city. Though the shift is sanctioned by all the high priests, the move has raised the hackles of the orthodox as being religiously untenable — though it certainly is not without precedent.  An earlier attempt to move the fire to the Shapoorji......



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