Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15997
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15997
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c. 930.—“Zarādasht, the son of Asbimām, . . . had brought to the Persians the book al-Bastāh in the old Fārsi tongue. He gave a commentary on this, which is the Zand, and to this commentary yet another explanation which was called Bazand. . .” —Mas‘ūdī, ii. 167. [See Haug, Essays, p. 11.]