Qissa-i Sanjan

The Qissa-i Sanjan, traditionally attributed to the priest Bahman Kaikobad, is the Zoroastrian Parsi community's own origin narrative of its ancestors' migration from Iran to Gujarat, composed with no securely recorded year and, by its own internal evidence, written centuries after the migration it describes, likely in the sixteenth century recounting events usually placed in the eighth to tenth centuries. Its strength is that it is the community's own foundational account of its arrival in India, preserved and transmitted within Parsi tradition itself. Its limit, acknowledged directly here rather than smoothed over, is that as a text separated from its events by at least six hundred years its historical reliability for the specific details of the migration is genuinely disputed among historians; it is treated in citation as an origin legend carrying communal memory and meaning, not as a contemporary chronicle of what happened.