Dabistan e Mazahab Urdu Translation
by Aḏar Kayvani
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DABESTĀN-E MAḎĀHEB (School of religious doctrines), an important text of the Āḏar Kayvānī pseudo-Zoroastrian sect (see āẕar kayvān). It was written anonymously between the years 1055/1645 and 1068/1658 (Rieu, Persian Manuscripts I, pp. 141-43) and contains information particularly about the prevalent religions of India in the 17th century. The author refers to himself only as “the author” (nāma-negār) and “the writer of the acts” (kerdār-gozār), but from autobiographical references in the book he seems to have been born in Patna around 1026/1617, for he was about seven years old in 1033/1624, when he was taken to Agra (formerly Akbarābād). He subsequently lived in several different parts of India, particularly Kashmir and Punjab, until about 1063/1653, and in 1053/1643 he traveled to Kabul and from there to Mašhad.
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