188 H. HOSTEN ON 



We have, then, in the fields, at a short distance of Padres Santos' Cemetery, 

 Agra, 5 inscriptions recording 3 family names : da Crus, Cardozo and de Sa, the period 

 covered being 1730-1768. One, a da Crus, and two Cardozos died at Bharatpur ; Bibl 

 Anna De Sa died at Delhi, one Cardozo de Sa died at Agra, and all are buried at 

 Agra, close to one another, beyond the limits of Padres Santos' Cemetery. 



Leaving out of count the da Cruz inscription, which is some distance from the 

 rest, it is quite natural to suppose that the six stones which lie together form a 

 family reserve, especially as on one of them the names of Cardozo and de Sa are 

 united. In fact, formerly they were covered with a dome. Cf. Trans. Arch. Soc. 

 Agra (Jan. — June 1875), p. xvi. The Cardozo and de Sa families would have been 

 related to Mlrza Zu-1-Oarnain. However, the fact that the only inscriptions found in 

 the fields date only from 1730 to 1768 militates against the supposition that the 

 earlier generations of the Sikandar family were buried in that direction. 



It is curious that the Agra MS. should speak of " old cemetery" in connection 

 with our No. 4. If we consider the distance and the regularity of the walls enclosing 

 Padres Santos' Cemetery, it is improbable that those fields ever formed part of 

 Padres Santos' Cemetery, nor could there have been on that side a cemetery older 

 than the latter. It is, perhaps, significant that, while five Jesuit Fathers were 

 buried in the Martyrs' Chapel of Padres Santos' Cemetery from 1730 to 1763, I found 

 in that cemetery only three inscriptions to laymen for the same period. Yet, I copied 

 all the inscriptions not noticed by E. A. H. Blunt, both in Padres Santos' Cemetery 

 and in and near the Cathedral (old and new). Two lay inscriptions are dated between 

 1700-1760; 2 between 1710 and 1720; 9 belong to 1770-1780, and 6 to 1790-1800. One 

 is either of 1720 or 1770; 1 of 1751, 1 of 176(4?) and one of 1768. The inscription 

 of 1 75 1 refers to an Armenian. These figures apply to inscriptions in European 

 characters. As for the Armenian inscriptions, E. A. H. Blunt has 2 between 1720 and 

 1730 ; but of the 83— out of a possible no— which Fr. Felix published from an old MS. 

 in the Agra Archives, none lies between 1730 and 1768. Mr. E. A. H. Blunt specu- 

 lates also on this anomaly (pp. 31-32 of his book), and it isnot likely that the absence 

 of the Court from Agra solves the whole problem. Was there for a time a prohibi- 

 tion to inter lay people in Padres Santos' Cemetery ? 



Be the explanation what it may, we find in Padres Santos' Cemetery one more 

 inscription that may refer us back to Zu-1-Qarnain. The French is wretched, but the 

 sculptor may have been partly at fault. 



CEV ROOS EE CORP DE AEEX ANDRE DECANE CARDOSO PERINCUE KAND MORT 

 LAN 1775 AGARA. 



Unless DECANE stands for Dakhini (= from the Dakhin or Deccan), which is 

 improbable, seeing that the name Cardoso comes next, I propose to read: Deca 

 (Deca, De Sa), ne Cardoso, though it involves, I fancy, the anomaly of a man's putting 

 the name of his wife or of his mother before his father's. Perhaps, he was the son of 

 Domingos Cardozo de Sa (cf. No. 3) The meaning would be: c 'Here lies (Ci repose) 

 the body (le corps) of Alexander Deca, ne Cardoso, Feringue [Firinghl] Khan, deceased 

 at Agara (Agra) in the-year 1775." 



