142 Proceeilings of the Asiatic Society. (Jury, 
took him for a Shi’ah in Sunni garb, and nowhere does Badaoni, 
the censor of Akbar’s age, make the slightest allusion to Hindi 
tendencies in the Khan Khanan. 
The imputation therefore falls to the ground. 
In connection with this subject, I may mention that the Society 
lately received from Allahabad a copy of a metrical Persian trans- 
lation of the Bhagwat Gita, the title page of which mentions Faizi 
as the author. A few weeks ago, I examined the book, and though 
some passages in it, especially the beginning, are well written, 
there are in it so many Hinduized Persian phrases and occasional 
slips in rhyme and metre, that I cannot bring myself to believe 
that Faizi is the author. 
Maulavi ’Abdullatif observed that Faizi was known to have been 
the first Muhammadan that studied Sanscrit, and as the Upanishad 
had been referred to Akbar’s times, he might be the author of it. 
Mr. Blochmann said that this was a mere supposition ; the state- 
ment of Faizi being the first Muhammadan that learned Sanscrit 
was an exploded error { Elliot’s Index, p. 259], and there was, 
besides, no evidence whatever that the great poet knew Sanscrit. 
Maulavi ’Abdullatif thought that under these circumstances Faizi 
resembled the many Europeans who got their Munshis to print 
works, putting their own names on the title page. 
Mr. Blochmann said that Muhammadan historians invariably re- 
present the translations which appeared during the reign of Akbar, 
as having been made from Hindi; and not directly by the Maulavis 
from the Sanscrit. - Some of the translators, as Naqib Khan, knew 
even so little of the vernacular, that they had to get help in reading 
the Hindi versions. 
III.—Memoranpvum on THE THUNDER-STORM WHICH PASSED OVER CAL- 
CUITA ON THE 8TH JuNE, 1871,—dy J. O. N. James, Esa, 
About 9 vp. m. I first observed dark masses of cloud rolling up 
from the south, although the direction of the wind at the time was 
from the N. E. Gradually these clouds spread over from S. E. to - 
West and N. W., and I then observed distant thunder with occa- 
‘sional flashes of lightning to 8. W. and 8. By 11 P. m, the entire 
