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Some have alleged that Roberto de Nobili was the author of a forged document written in French and purported to be a translation of an ancient Sanskrit scripture by the name of Ezourvedam.

Max Mueller, a great Orientalist who edited the series The Sacred Books of the East has concluded convincingly that de Nobili did not author the forged work.

Ludo Rocher has published a detailed study about the Ezourvedam which shows that the author of this text must have been a French missionary.

He offered several names: " The question who the French Jesuit author of the EzV was we can only speculate on.

Calmette was very much involved in the search for the Vedas ; Mosac is a definite possibility ; there may by some truth to Maudave ’ s information on Martin ; there is no way of verifying the references to de Villette and Bouchet.

The author of the EzV may be one of these, but he may also be one of their many more or less well known confreres.

In the present state of our knowledge, we cannot go any further than that.

Urs App recently offered new evidence for the authorship of Jean Calmette ( 1692 – 1740 ).