Vīdevdād sādah lacking the beginning which has been added in a later hand as have ff. 42-43. The date AY 403 (1435) on f..245 however is in Pazand and has been superimposed on the existing text and cannot be relied on. A note in Gujarati, dating from the late 18th century, on the endpaper says...
A copy of the Vīdevdād sādah by Mobed Rustam Bahram Darab Sorab Manak Peshotan Sanjana descended from Naryosang Dhaval, dated at Surat in the year 1129 of the Yazdagird era (1759 AD). The colophons in Pahlavi, Persian and Gujarati (f. 348r onwards) also mention that owner was Mobed-born Mobed Na...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:
1759
Extent:
349+iii folios. Ff. 346 and 347 are misplaced in the binding and should follow f. 349. Ff. 346v-347v blank.
The Vīdevdād sādah copied according to notes in Persian and Gujarati on f. 1r by the learned Dastur Darab, the teacher of Anquetil-Duperron (1731-1805) between 1758 and 1760. The copy is without a colophon but presumably dates from the mid-18th century. The manuscript has been rebound in its ...
The Pahlavi Vīdevdād consisting of the Avestan text with each section followed by translation and commentary in Pahlavi. The copy lacks the beginning and final section but a later transcript of this codex includes the original colophon revealing the copyist's name as Mihraban Kaikhusraw who com...
Vīdevdād sādah and Vishtāsp Yasht completed on the 5th day of the 10th month of 1161 of the Yazdagird era (1792 A.D) and copied by Ervad Rustam Darab Framroz Minuchihr Kershaspji Pavri at Bombay. Contents: Vishtāsp Yasht (ff. 1r-4v): in a very small hand, 46-54 lines per page. Vīdevdād sādah (...
Yasna sādah, copied in Bharuch, Gujarat, by Herbad Rustam Bahram Ardashir Nushirvan on 22 Rabiʿ I, 1152 corresponding to the day Srosh of the month Dah 1110 of the Yazdagird era (29 June 1739 - although the two dates don't correspond). Interlinear glosses in Persian, generally in the margin.
The Bundahishn beginning with the chapter on the Gokard tree. Persian colophon (f.93v): copied at the port of Surat by Dastur-born Herbad Darab Dastur Rustam Dastur Jamshid, brother of Dastur Ka'us ibn Bahram ibn Faramurz and completed on the day Khvurshid of the month Adar 1184 of the Yazdagir...
A copy of the Rivāyat of Kāmdīn Shāpūr in Persian but in Avestan script, containing instructions on ritual matters sent from Iran to the Parsis of India, completed according to the Persian colophon (f. 137r) in Nawsari, Gujarat, on the day Aban in the month Day 1020 of the Yazdagird era (1652) b...