The name _Yezd-bouzid_ is Persian, and at the epoch when the monument was discovered it would have been impossible to invent it, as there existed no work where it could have been found.
Indeed, I do not think that, even since then, there has ever been any one published in which it could have been met with.
"It is a very celebrated name among the Armenians, and comes to them from a martyr, a Persian by birth, and of the royal race, who perished towards the middle of the seventh century, and rendered his name illustrious amongst the Christian nations of the East." Saint Martin adds in the same place, that the famous monument of Si-ngau-Fou, whose authenticity has for a long time been called in question from the hatred entertained against the Jesuit missionaries who discovered it, rather than from a candid examination of its contents, is now regarded as above all suspicion..