The Rivayats (also spelled as Revayats) are a series of exchanges between the Zoroastrian community in India and their co-religionists in early modern Iran.
[2] The content of each Rivayat varies but they are usually queries on matters of worship, customs, rituals and observance.
[1][5] Hoshang was a layman, supported by Chang Asa a notable leader of the Navsari Parsi community.
[6] Hoshang spent a year in Yazd, learning Persian and supported himself by 'petty trade'.
The Rivayats are notable as the only Modern Persian text composed in the Avestan script.