The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s3.37
The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s3.37
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Devabandara—Diu in Guzerat. In the 7th century A. D., the ancestors of the Parsis of Bombay left Persia on account of oppression and resided for some time in Diu before they finally settled in the island of Sanjan on the Western Coast of India in the early part of the 8th century A. D. (*Bomb. Gaz.*, IX, Pt. II, pp 183 *ff*; XIV, pp. 506—536; *Journal of the Bom. Br. of the R. A. S.*, I, p. 170).