Cama Athornan Manuscript Repository

This repository, which is hosted at the Ancient India and Iran Trust in Cambridge, provides access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International deed to Zoroastrian manuscripts digitised by SOAS at the M.F. Cama Athornan Institute (MFCAI) in Mumbai, India.

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M.F. Cama Athornan Institute, Mumbai

The Cama Athornan Institute is a training school for Zoroastrian priests. It was founded in 1923 by Meherwanji Muncherji Cama, and named in memory of his father Muncherji Faramji Cama.

The Multimedia Yasna (MUYA)

The Multimedia Yasna (MUYA) European Research Council (ERC) project examines the core ritual of the Zoroastrian tradition, the Yasna, the oldest parts of which date from the second millennium BCE.

Access to forty-two digitised Zoroastrian manuscripts

As part of the MUYA project 42 Zoroastrian manuscripts held at the Cama Athornan Institute have been catalogued and digitised and are now accessible in this repository. They include material written in Avestan, Gujarati, Pahlavi and Pazand.

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Cama Athornan Institute Archive
Cama Athornan Institute Archive

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