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| Date transcribed | 2011-03-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Firuz | | | First Name(s) | Mulla Bin Kawoos | | | Year of Birth | 1758 | | | Year of Death | 1830 | | | Entry | Native of Broach, born 1758 : son of Mulla Kawoos, a priest of the Parsis of Bombay : when 10 years old, accompanied his father on a journey to Persia ; they carried with them letters from the Indian Zoroastrians for the solving of religious questions : on their return, after an absence of twelve years, they settled at Bombay : Firuz Mulla, himself a Parsi priest, of the Kadmi sect from 1794, and great student of Oriental language, was induced by Jonathan Duncan {q.v.) to write the Persian poem George Nama, a history of India from its discovery by the Portuguese and of the English in India to 1819 : this was an epic poem, called after George III., and dedicated to Queen Victoria: he was a great collector of Persian and Arabic MSS. : published in 1818, the Desatir, a very ancient religious Persian work: assisted the foundation of the Bombay Samachar in 1822, and wrote largely in it : led a retired and ascetic life, devoted to his studies : much sought by scholars, English and Asiatic, and held in the highest respect ; he wrote also on the advantages of vaccination : on his death, on Oct. 8, 1830, his collection was left as a gift in the charge of the Elders of the Kadmi Zoroastrians : it now forms the Mulla Firuz Library in Bombay : the Madrasa bearing his name was founded in 1854, for the instruction of Zoroastrians in their sacred lore. |
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