[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Persian](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa) › [History (Ghaznavid, Ghurid, Ilkhanid, Timurid)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.tarikh) › زین الاخبار # 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](https://indike.org/pramana/person/gardizi) - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.tarikh.zayn-al-akhbar](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.tarikh.zayn-al-akhbar) · Pramāṇa