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correspond with their nouns. The collocation is also defective. 
The work nevertheless, when first published, met with great success, 
and many Hindus even now maintain its authenticity. The late Sir 
Raji Rédhikénta was so far taken in by it that, oy its authority, he 
introduced in his great lexicon the words Alla and Illa as Sanskrit 
vocables. 
The use of Akbar’s name suggests the idea that it was got up in 
the time of that emperor by one of his courtiers to give currency 
to his new faith among his Hindu subjects, but who it was, it is im- 
possible now to determine. Itis said in the Ain ¢ Akbaré that 
Badaoni, the author of the Iluntakhab uttawarikh, was a great Sans- 
krit-scholar, and was employed by Akbar in translating the Atharva 
Veda in Persian, but as he was a devout Muhammadan who look- 
ed with horror upon the new faith of his master, and freely stig- 
matized it in his history of Akbar’s reign ; it is not at all likely that 
he would be guilty of calling Akbar a prophet, and Allah the God 
of Muhammad Akbar and not that of the Arabian prophet, unless 
we believe it was done with a view to ridicule the religion of Akbar, 
which is scarcely probable. A writer in the Oudh Akhbar, a Hindu- 
stani newspaper of Lucknow, says it is the work of the Ahankhanan 
of Akbar, but as there were several such officers during the long 
and prosperous reign of that monarch, it is not possible to ascertain 
which of them was the author of this gross religious imposition, 
Mr. Blochmann said— 
Bébu Réjendraléla Mitra mentioned that the Allah Upanishad 
was ascribed to one of Akbar’s Khan Khanans. Akbar had three, 
Bairém, Mun’im Khan, and Mirzé ’Abdurrahim, son of Bairam. If 
any of the three had written the Allah Upanishad, it could only be 
the last. Bairém was a bigotted Shi’ah, and Mun’im a brave, 
pious soldier, anything else but a writer. Besides, the book 
could only have been written after A. H. 986, from which year 
Akbar had commenced to abjure Islam ; but Bairdém died in 969, 
and Mun’im at Gaur in 983. Consequently, Mirzi ’Abdurrahim, 
the Khan Khanan par excellence of Akbar’s reign, could be the only 
one to whom the imputation could refer. But he, too, was a most 
unlikely man to undertake the edition of a Hindu work. People 
