Hamidreza Dalvand
Abstract
The Yazdgerdi calendar is one of the ancient monuments of the Iranian intangible heritage that has maintained its function both in the economic and scientific area of the Islamic world and in the religious domain of the Zoroastrian world. and every times, based ...
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The Yazdgerdi calendar is one of the ancient monuments of the Iranian intangible heritage that has maintained its function both in the economic and scientific area of the Islamic world and in the religious domain of the Zoroastrian world. and every times, based on the needs of users, it has changed. Each reform had its own consequences and had a special impact on the user community. For example, Moʽtazedi's reforms took the economic function of the Yazdgerdi calendar. And according to the place of the five days of andargāh in end of Aban or Espand, the reforms of the year 375 divided Zoroastrian society into two parts, the eastern and western parts. Or, the emergence of the Jalali calendar and Malekshah's reforms in the fifth century AH removed Iranian calendar from Zoroastrian society. One possible reform is the leap of year 500 in the Yazdgerdi calendar and within the legacy of Zoroastrianism. What we read in this essay is about that event and its aftermath have affected the Zoroastrian world to the present day. In the 18th and 19th centuries, this reform divided the Zoroastrian community of India into two parts.
