From Asian Age:
Over 90,000 rare manuscripts that were decaying at the 131-year-old Dastoor Meherjirana Library at Navsari, southern Gujarat, have been dug out and microfilmed by the Parzor Foundation as part of Unesco’s \”Preservation of Parsi Zoroastrian Heritage\” project.
The documents microfilmed include the original Sanad of Emperor Akbar, issued to the first Dastoor Meherjirana conferring land and power on him and paying tribute to his wisdom at the Din-i-Illahi at Fatehpur Sikri in 1578. The project, funded by the National Archives, which contributed Rs 3.5 lakhs, and Piloo Jungalwalla, also filmed the 1,000-year-old Avesta, Pahlavi and Pazend manuscripts, including over 25 extremely rare Riviyats — the correspondence between original Iranian priests and Parsi religious leaders in India after over three centuries of no correspondence, besides documents recording Persian and Gujarati literature like Gulistan, Tutiname, Iqbal Nama, Taimur Nama, medical recipes, historical and cultural information, rare Mughal records and documents from the Mughal court, legends and myths . . .
Complete story. More information is available at the homepage of the UNESCO Parsi Zoroastrian Project.
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