Dastur Peshotan Behramji Sanjana

{{short description|Indian scholar and Zoroastrian head-priest}}

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Dastur Peshutan Behramji Sanjana (1828–26 December 1898) was an Indian scholar and Zoroastrian head-priest (Dastur).

He was Principal of the Sir Jamshedji Jijibhoy Zartoshti (Zoroastrian) Madressa (seminary) in Bombay, and the Dastur (‘high-priest’) of the Wadia Atash Behram (fire temple).

Sanjana was one of the most learned high-priests and authorities on Pahlavi of his time.{{cite web |title=SANJANA, Darab Dastur Peshutan – Encyclopaedia Iranica |url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/sanjana-darab |website=iranicaonline.org}}

In 1904 a Festschrift was published in his honour with an introduction by Edward William West.Avesta, Pahlavi, and Ancient Persian Studies In Honour of the Late Shams-Ul-Ulama Dastur Peshutan Behramji Sanjana, Repressed Publishing, 2013 (1904)

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