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malevolent persons had spread the rumour of the Emperor's hatred 
to Islam and of his having become a Brahman, but they were refuted 
and put to shame by certain Christian philosophers in a public disputa- 
tion held for that purpose. But he ascribes no permanent influence 
to these Christian philosophers, for ina further passage! he writes :— 
‘The Emperor conversed for some time onthe religious information 
he had obtained from Christian priests, but it appeared after a short while 
that their arguments had made no great impression on his mind so that 
he troubled himself ne more with contemplations about asceticism, the 
allurements of poverty and the despicableness of a worldly life.’ 
So far Badauni and Abu-l-fazl, In the Dabistan which was written 
about sixty years after Akbar’s death, we find a curious account? 
(how far exact we cannot tell) of a discussion which took place before 
Akbar between a ‘Nazarene’ and a Muhammadan, and of another 
between a ‘Nazarene’ and a Jew. These appear® to be based on 
Xavier’s dialogues in the Ama-i-Hagg-numa, which will be noticed 
further on, and are not worth reproducing here. 
Jesuit authorities.—Turning now to the Jesuit accounts of the 
missions, it will be convenient to note shortly the chief published 
origines available :— 
lL. The Annuxze Litere or Annual Reports of the doings of the 
Society throughout the world, which were circulated to the various 
Jesuit centres, pay little or no attention to Upper India. Ont of the 
reports available in the British Museum, wiz., those for 1582-3, 1586-7, 
1592—5, 1597-8 and 1600—5, these for 1582 and 1597 alone contain in- 
formation regarding the Mughal Missions. 
2. Practically our only authority for the second mission consists 
of two letters with enclosures from the Provincial at Goa, which were 
published in Italian by the Jesuit father Spitili at Rome, in 1592. A 
Latin translation of his work was published at Antwerp in 1593 and 
called: ‘ Brevis et compendiosa narratio missionum quarundam orientis 
et occidentis excerpta ex quibusdam litteris a P. P..... datis anno 1590 
et 1591.’ A French translation followed at Lyons-in 1594. 
3. A valuable authority is John Baptist Peruschi, a Jesuit who ia 
1597 published at Brescia, a little book called ‘ Informatione del Regno 
e stato del gran Ré di Mogor.’ French translations appeared at 
Besancon and Paris in 1597 and 1598 respectively : and the book was 
also translated in 1598 into German and Latin at Maintz. The Latin 
1 Akb. (Luckn. litho. ed.) III. 208, taken from Rehatsek, Cale. Rev. Jan. 1886, 
p.3. 
2 Shea and Troyer’s Translation, ILI. 65-9. 
5 See Dr. Lee’s prefacé to Martyns, ‘Controversial Tracts,’ p. 87. 
