140 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Juxy, 
TI.—Noves on THE ALLAH UpantsHap,—bdy Ba’bu Ra’JENDRALA’LA 
Mirra. 
(Abstract. ) 
After adverting to the imitation of the Yajur Veda prepared by 
the Jesuit missionaries of Madras, during the last century, with a 
view to prove, by Vedic evidence, the authenticity of the Bible and 
the divinity of Jesus Christ, the author describes in detail a forgery 
which was committed about three centuries ago, to establish the divi- 
nity of Allah as described by the Emperor Akbar. A copy of this 
spurious document has lately been received from Babu Harischandra 
of Benares. It bears the titled of ‘ Allah Upanishad,” and pro- 
fesses to be a chapter of the Pippaldda Sakhé of the Atharva Veda. 
As the Sékhain question is no longer extant, and has ceased to be 
so for several centuries, it has been appealed to by at least half a dozen 
apocryphal Upanishads, and notably by the Gopala Tapani, to serve 
for their parentage, and the author of the work under notice, pro- 
bably aware of the circumstance, has availed himself of it to escape 
detection. It opens in the usual Hindu style with a salutation to Gane- 
sa, and then describes Allah to be both Mitra and Varuna ; that he is 
the bestower of all blessings, and the supporter of the Universe. He 
is the Lord of all the gods (illah), and manifest in his own light. He 
is addressed as the Allah of the prophet (sast7) Muhammad Akbar, 
and gloried repeatedly by being called ‘‘the great God” in the 
Arabic phrase Al/dhu Akbar. It terminates with a prayer for the 
preservation of men, cattle, lions and aquatic animals, in the course 
of which a female divinity, the destroyeress of demons (aswra saii- 
harint) is invoked with the Tantric mystic formule hrum, rif and 
phat, which form the vya mantra of one of the manifestations of the 
goddess Durga. 
The language of the MS. is very obscure, apparently so made 
with a view to imitate the Vedic style, but the imitation is neither 
happy nor grammatically correct. A plural verb has been twice 
used for a singular nominative, and the adjectives do not always 
From a cursory perusal of De Laét’s work on Persia, I am inclined to think 
that it contains no original matter, but is a compilation from other works 
on Persia, Even in his work on India, there is much that is copied from 
. others. His topographical notes on Bihar and Bengal ave worthless, and often 
misleading, 
