High Priest of Iranshah Atashbehram at Udvada, Vada Dasturji Peshotan Mirza lost his battle against cancer and died yesterday around noon at Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai. His last rites were held the same evening at Doongerwadi.
“It is with deep sorrow that I have to inform you that our beloved Vada Dasturji Peshotan Dastur Homuzdyar Mirza has passed away,” Vada Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor informed the community on Sunday.
Dr. Peshotan Dastur Hormazdyar Mirza was a fantastic combination of religious fervour and technical excellence. Born at Udvada in November 1944, Dr. Peshotan Mirza acquired his priestly Education and Training at Seth Sorabji Manekji Damanwala Madressa, Udvada and The M.F. Cama Athornan Institute, Andheri.
Ordained the Zoroastrian Priestly orders of Navar, Maratab and Samel; performed higher liturgical services and ‘Boi’ ceremony of Holy Iranshah Atash-Behram, Udvada.
As for his academic and theological education; he passed SSC examination and joined St. Xavier’s college Mumbai and obtained B.Sc (Honors), M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from the University of Bombay.
He studied Avesta-Pahlavi and Iranian History at Sir J.J Zarthosti Madressa and Mulla Firoze Madressa, Mumbai alongside University studies in Science.
He was appointed to the exalted position of Dastur (High-Priest) of Iranshah Atash Behram; Samast Anjuman, Udvada on 13th May 2004.
Apart from being a priest of the highest calibre, few in the community know that he was a lecturer in Chemistry at St. Xavier’s College; Mumbai Development and Documentation Scientist at International Draxon Industries, Tehran, Iran.
Dasturji Mirza had been ill for some time now. The entire Parsi community mourns the loss of this splendid and erudite Zoroastrian — one of the finest Vada Dasturjis.
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