186 H. HOSTEN ON 



The other two inscriptions state : — 



No. 2. + 



[IAJS IOAO CARDOZ /D . ,, 7 ,. . 



1 J {Proposed translation.) 



[O OjBIIT EM BHART ru „ 



J [Here I lies Joao Cardozo, (who) died at 



[P]VR FOR NOME I[?DE?] Bhartpur [Bharatpur]. By (the) name of 



[PJVRTVGVEZ KA (i.e., afe) Portuguese Khan. Year 25th 



?NANO: 25 DE D December 1761. 

 EZEMBRO 1761. 



The Agra MS. divides thus : por nome vrtuguezkana no (by name Urtuguezkana on 

 the). I do not think that the word aqvi for <c here" ever stood in the beginning. 

 There would have been no room for it on the first line. The inscription could not 

 have begun either with [seba]stiao (Sebastian). For the title Khan recurring, 

 see p. 187, No. 5. 



No. 3. + 



AQUI IAIS 



DOMINGO 



S CARDOZ (Translation.) 



O DESA FA Here lies Domingos Cardozo DeSa. 



LECEO EM Died at Agra on the 22nd of July I7[3]— . 



AGRA A 22 



IULHO D* i7[3l— • 



I hesitated between 173— and 175 — ■. The anonymous Agra MS. has 173 — . It 

 translates Domingos by Dominick, an old spelling. A reading of 1876 has 175 — . 



These six stones are cenotaphs, single blocks of hard stone, and executed in the 

 best style of the cenotaphs in Padres Santos' Cemetery, i.e., the style of Muham- 

 madan cenotaphs. These stones have not apparently been shifted since 1876. Still, 

 I do not see why the writer in the Agra Arch. Soc. Trans., 1876, should have spoken of 

 a mound. A footpath across the fields passed just over stone No. 2, and this in the 

 long run will obliterate the inscription. The inscriptions had lost little of their 

 clearness during these last 60 years. I think it proper to represent to the Archaeo- 

 logical Department of Agra, whose solicitude in these matters deserves the highest 

 commendation, that these stones should be protected from injury either by means 

 of a raised platform or a railing. 



Within 5 minutes from the place just described, under a big nim-tree, in what a 

 native in the fields called Chamalbara Khet, we found another cenotaph resting on a 

 low narrow pile of red bricks. I was told that the Hindus worship it on Thursdays, 

 burning ghl and offering sweetmeats and flowers The Agra MS. notes the same. 

 Its head-line : " Inscription on the grave in the old cemetery; the grave worshipped 

 by the natives ' ' is suggestive. 



The following appears on the cenotaph : — 



