50 E. D. Maclagan-— Jesuit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. [No. 1, 
On the 18th Febrnary 1580, Aquaviva! reached Fathpur Sikri where he 
was most hospitably received. As the members of the mission limited 
themselves to the barest necessaries of life they refused to accept a 
sum of money which was sent to them, and their life of self-denial 
greatly impressed the Emperor. Three or four days later they presented 
him with a copy of the Bible in four languages, bonnd handsomely in 
seven volumes.* These the Emperor received with great reverence, 
kissing each volume and lifting it to his head. He asked which volume 
contained the Gospel and on being told took it up once more and kissed 
it. He was then presented with a picture of Christ and another of the 
Virgin—the latter being a copy of the S. Maria Maggiore at Rome,*— 
which he also kissed reverently and gave to his sons to kiss. He sub- 
sequently commanded his painters to copy the pictures of Christ and 
of the Virgin which the Fathers had with them, and ordered the con- 
struction of a reliquary of gold with the figures of Christ and of the 
Virgin graven on either side. He also removed the Fathers from their 
noisy house in the city and gave them accomodation in the palace, where 
they built a small chapel. This chapel the Emperor visited with his 
sons—known to the Jesuits as Shaikhji, Pahari and Dan*—and paid 
every sort of respect to the place, even taking off his turban in deference 
to Huropean custom. He also gave orders that his second son Sultan 
Murad (Pahari) should be instructed im the Portuguese language and 
good morals, an ungrateful task which fell to the lot of Father Monser- 
in these terms with reference to thirteen figures in basso relievo upon the rocks 
at Gwaliar, which he visited on bis way from Surat to Delhi and which were 
supposed by Christians in India to represent our Saviour and his twelve dis- 
ciples; one figure in the middle being a little higher than the rest: Monserrat says 
they were so much defaced that no inference could be drawn from them except 
there being thirteen in number (p. 164). The MS. of Monserrat here quoted 
(which Wilford says was in his own possession see p. 230 %b.,) has it seems dis- 
appeared ; if indeed it ever existed, for Wilford was an imaginative writer. cf. Notes 
and Queries, Feb. 1870 p. 161. 
1 Monserrat being ill, remained for a time at Narwar. There was a native 
Christian community at Narwar in the time of Father Tieffenthaler S. J. circa 
1759 A.D. See Proce. A. 8. B. 1872, p. 59. 
2 This may have been the Complutensian Polyglott published at Alcala in 
1514-7 in six volumes, or Montanus’ Polyglott published at Antwerp in 1569-73 
in eight volumes. Both these were in four languages: Hebrew, Chaldean, Latin 
and Greek. See also p. 69 below. 
3 The black Byzantine Virgin in the Borghese Chapel of the Church of 8. Maria 
Maggiore, said to have been painted by S. Luke. 
4 Shaikhji or Shaikhi was Prince Salim, the future Emperor Jahangir, then 
aged 11. Pahari was prince Murad, aged 10, so called from his being born among 
the low hills of Fathpur. Dan was Danyal, then aged 9. 
