Socio-religious division in the Indo-Iranian Investiture with the Sacred Girdle
- Céline Redard (coord.)
- Juanjo Ferrer-Losilla (coord.)
- Hamid Moein (coord.)
- Philippe Swennen (coord.)
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Liège
ISBN: 978-2-87562-260-0
Year of publication: 2020
Pages: 345-355
Type: Book chapter
Abstract
The Vedic schools agreed upon the fact that children must be invested with the sacred girdle at a different age according to the caste they belonged to. The differences of age at which Zoroastrian children had to be invested with the girdle, according to the Avestan texts, might be also due to a parallel socio-religious division, which probably reflects a common usage going back to a Proto-Indo-Iranian period.