زین الاخبار (زین الأخبار)

The Ornament of Histories

Ghaznavid history whose chapter on the Indians (after al-Bīrūnī and earlier reports) describes their festivals, sciences, and some forty sects (Mahādevīya, Kāpālika, Vaiṣṇava…), and narrates Maḥmūd's Indian campaigns.

Language

Persian

Date

1049–1052 CE

Author

Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Ḥayy Gardīzī

Text

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