The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society

Most of the Greek writers have given the names of their own gods to the angels of the Zoroastrians according to the resemblance of the position and the work allotted to them. [...] In the history of Persia we read that portions of the soldiers of the ancient emperors were named the eyes and ears of the empire ; undoubtedly Meher Yesht is the source of the idea and the institution. [...] Such local convenience was the means of the extension of Mithra-worship up to the borders of the Black Sea and the Greek Aegean Sea on the west and to the Sind i.e. [...] III] MITHRA-CULT 267 In the reign of the Parthians the place of Mithra was safe and the names of three of the kings of Parthia were Meherdad. [...] In Europe the splendour and majesty of Mithra was especially due to the fact that the emperors nobles and the legionaries were his supporters and they used to order the persecution of the Christians The persecution of the Christians by the Emperor Decius in the year 250 A. D. is well known in Roman history.