31. On the Persian Farmans granted to the Jesuits by 
the Moghul Emperors, and Tibetan and Newari Far- 
mans granted to the Capuchin Missionaries in Tibet 
and Nepal. 
By Rev. Fr. Fenix, O.M.C. 
My principal object in coming to Calcutta was to search 
for the manuscripts on the Geography, History, Customs and 
who for more than half a century laboured in those countries 
from the beginning of the 18th century. 
While I am still in pursuit of some of these manuscripts, 
I discovered a few years back, in the Mission Archives of Agra, 
a good many Persian farmans connected with the Jesuit Mission 
in Mogor. On exhibiting these privately to some members of 
your Society, I was asked by one of them to lay before you, for 
inspection and examination, the fruits of my researches. 
readily accepted the offer: first, in order that by doing so I 
might remove from the minds of not a few learned Orientalists 
which they have been buried for centuries. 
Now the documents, which I have the pleasure to lay 
before you, Gentlemen, belong to different countries and are 
written in various languages. 
Before dealing with the Persian farmans, which all belong 
to the Moghul epoch, and spread over a period of two hundred 
years, it will not be out of place to state first the nature of a 
parman, wh 
tural assertion.’ Hence, the Persian word m 
