Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15998

c10.15998

c. 1030.—“The chronology of this same past, but in a different shape, I have also found in the book of Hamza ben Alhusain Alisfahāni, which he calls *Chronology of great nations of the past and present.* He says that he has endeavoured to correct his account by means of the Abastā, which is the religious code (of the Zoroastrians). Therefore I have transferred it into this place of my book.”—Al-Bīrūni, *Chronology of Ancient Nations*, by Sachau, p. 112.