Quotes:Farhang-i-Jahangiri

Zirkoff, Boris

*Farhang-i-Jahangiri. Persian Encyclopaedia, the first word (also ferheng and frahang in Pahl.) meaning “instruction,” “education”; begun in 1597 on order of Akbar by Jamal al-Din Husain Inja, and ‘Alid of Shiraz, and finished in 1608 in the reign of Jahangir. It is a dictionary of pure Persian words, preceded by an outline of Persian grammar. It is available in Manuscript form (ff. 576), at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 647