Zarathustra

Published on 13th October, 2019, in Mumbai Mirror Ancient Hindus called themselves Arya and their homeland Arya-varta, which, according to Manusmriti, stretched from the Himalayas in the north to the sea in the south. But Manusmriti does not refer to another Aryan community that lived at the same time in Iran. Iran, in fact, is the Persian word for Aryan. Iranians see themselves as the Arya. Before Iran became Islamic, it was Zoroastrian. Zoroastrianism is the world’s oldest monotheistic religion. Avesta is its holy book where Ahura (asura) is good, and deva is bad. Much of the Avesta was destroyed following the rise of Islam. ..