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remember which Fathers repaired then to the Court of the Mogol in the place of the 

 Holy Martyr Father Rodolfo Aqua viva and Antonio de Monserrate. 1 What I am sure 

 of is that it was still in King Hacabar's lifetime that Fr. Hieronimo Xavier of happy 

 memory went also to that Court. 2 He was an apostolic man, and King Hacabar 

 janguir esteemed him much, and so did always, too, King Janguir, Hacabar's son, who 

 of the world* succeeded him to the throne. Fr. Hieronimo Xavier was many years at King 

 Janguir' s Court, and he composed a very big book in Persian dedicated to King 

 Hacabar and entitled in the dedication: " Mirror of Princes." He composed other 

 very good works in Persian, which are kept in our College of Agra and in this Secre- 

 tariat of Goa. The book I speak of is also written in Persian, as are many others 

 composed by the same Father/ 



" While Father Hieronimo Xavier was at King Janguir's Court, great was the 

 prestige enjoyed by him and other Fathers, who joined him, such as Manoel Pinheiro, 

 nicknamed the Mogol, 6 Fr. Joseph de Crasto [sic], Francisco Corci, and others nearer to 

 our times, whose names I omit. King Janguir granted Father Hieronimo Xavier the 

 boon of a certain number of Christians, whom he had taken prisoners in certain wars 

 and whom he kept shut up in a prison whence they could not escape. 8 These being 

 instructed again in the faith, together with others, adult heathens, men and women, 

 whom he baptized, the Mission of Mogol derived its origin from them. They multi- 

 Foi. 42). plied among themselves, and this was the beginning of that Christianity, || and the 

 zealous labours of the other Fathers of that Mission added to their numbers in after 

 years. When I was Superior of it, I baptized twenty-one pagans, and from time to 

 time there are always some quos Deus elegit et praedestinavit (whom God chose and 

 predestinated)' to be brought within the fold. In my time, the number of those 

 Christians who received Holy Communion and went to Confession rose to seven hundred. 



1 could not say with certainty how the numbers stand at present. The ordinary 

 Annuals will tell us, if they do not forget. The Fathers Missionaries devote them- 



1 They were Fathers Edward L,eitao and Christopher da Veiga ; the name of the lay-brother, Estevao Ribeiro, I 

 rind in a letter by Fr. Anthony Mendez to the General concerning Tibet (1636). The second Jesuit Mission to Akbar 

 covers the year 1590-91. 



2 This was in 1595. 



A The marginal notes belong to the original. Jahangir: (lit.) world-seizer. 



■* On Jerome Xavier's literary labours, cf. J.A.S.B., 1896, pp. 110113; ibid., Jerome Xavier's Persian Lives of the 

 Apostles, 1914, pp. O5-84; H. BevERIDGE, J.R.A.S., 1901, pp. 78-79, on the Samrat-al-fildsafa, one of Jerome Xavier's 

 works, made in collaboration with ' Abdu-s-Sattar (compare J.A.S.B., 1896, p. 93, and see the Tuzuk-i-J ahdngiri , A. 

 Rogers, and H. Beveridge'S transl., I, 389; II, 82, 82 ;;. 3). C. Sommervogel, S.J., (Bibl. de la C. de /., VIII, col. 

 1339, No. 4) mentions Directoriuin Regum ad Regni gubernationem. This must be the Mirror of Princes referred to by 

 Botelho, unless he refers to the Mirror of Holiness, i.e., the Mirdtu-l-Quds otherwise called the Ddstdn-i-Masih (I^ife of 

 Christ), which was dedicated to Akbar, while the Mirror of Princes, if it is the same as the Guide of Kings, would have 

 been dedicated to Jahangir in 1609, according to the Bibl. Marsdeniana, p. 305. Cf. J.A.S.B., 1896, p. 113. 



& His obituary is in the Annual Letter of Goa for 1614. " He died aged 67 years, of which he had spent 46 in the 

 Society, and 20 near the King of JMogor, to whom and to whose subjects he had endeared himself. He knew Persian so 

 perfectly that he astonished the Mogorese." Cf. our translation of the passage in The Examiner, Bombay, 1912, p. 57. 

 Probably it was the Fathers who playfully called him the " Mogor," meaning that he had thoroughly acquired the Indian 

 habits and ways. 



S An allusion to the Portuguese captured at Asirgarh, some of whom enlisted under Akbar as ahdis, 'soldiers with 



2 horses apiece,' while others were left dependent on the Mission (1600-1604). Cf. J.A.S.B., 1896, pp. 83, 90. 



1 Adapted from Rom. viii. 30. 



