Note 25 — Chapter III · Population—Costumes—Usages—Festivals
Ratanbai Ardeshir Vakil translation
The Parsis in India are divided into two sects, the Shahanshahis and the Kadmis.25 When Anquetil Duperron visited India this division already existed, and he found them “more excited against each other than the Mahomedan sects of Omar and Ali.” The Parsis, however, do not admit this. This division has nothing to do with their faith, and has nothing in common with the division between the Shiahs and the Sunnis. The schism26 has arisen simply out of a difference of opinion concerning the exact date of computation of the era of Yezdezard, the last king of the ancient Persian monarchy. This division does not exist amongst the Zoroastrians who have remained behind in their own country.