322 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
the Agra Archeological Department to remove the misleading 
inscription on the present marble slab replacing it by another 
with the correct translation of both the Armenian and Persian 
inscriptions as given above by me. 
ow let us see who this pious and charitable Armenian 
merchant was and where he came from My good and learned 
friend Father H Hosten, 8.J., of St. Joseph’s College, Darji- 
ling, has published in his interesting account of Mirza Zul- 
Qurnain (an Armenian Grandee at the court of Akbar, Jahangir 
and Shah Jahan) the following letter written from Agra in 1612 
which throws a flood of light on the subject of this article. 
Father Joao de Velasco, S.J., writing his ‘‘ Annual Letter ”’ from 
Agra on the 25th day of December, 1612, says :— 
Lately this place was adorned with a chapel (templum) 
erected with the alms of a pious Armenian, who free from 
the bonds of wedlock after the death of his wife, went to 
Rome and Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to the holy places of 
others to call him by any other name. However, he 
travelled divers countries as a merchant buying and selling 
goods and making profits amounting to many thousands of 
gold pieces (awrei—Gold Mohurs). But all his gains he 
gave away to the poor or spent in other works of piety and 
charity and that so faithfully that he was loth to subtract 
anything for his own sustenance, for he would say repeatedly 
that these goods were no longer his but the Lord Jesus’ to 
whom he had consecrated himself. Once after a very long 
d 
ast in a law suit, when, to the judges wonder, he 
presently distributed among the needy the money he had 
received; he ransomed very many captives from his own 
very faithful servant, he spent his goods and his life. 
Doubtless, he deserved to enter into the joy of his Lord. 
He was buried in the Chapel (in temple) he had built and 
he asked Father Xavier to write over his tomb: Here 
