MIRZA ZU-L-QARNAIN, A CHRISTIAN GRANDEE. 189 



Notice the re-appearance of the name Alexander. Among the Catholic inscrip- 

 tions from Agra and Sardhana (cf. E. A. H. Blunt, op. cit.) one may notice a certain 

 predilection for the name Juliana, too. 



E. A. H. Blunt [op. cit., p. 15, No. 42; has the following inscription to another 

 Cardozo from Sardhana : " Sacred to the memory of Manuel Cardozo, who departed 

 this life, Thursday, September 15, 1808, aged 105 years." He notes that a " Frederick 

 Cardozo is mentioned as a servant, and then a pensioner, of the Begam Samru, 

 doubtless a relation of this centenarian." (Reference: Dyce-Sombre Depositions).^ 



APPENDIX C. 



Notes on Lady Juliana Dias da Costa. 1 



I feel inclined to think that this renegade was Agostinho Dias, father of the famous 

 Lady Juliana of Shah Alam's time. Valentyn says that her father was a merchant 

 at Cochin, who, when the Dutch took the place, went to Goa, thence to Bengal and 

 Mogor, his daughter Juliana being born to him in Bengal. 



Valentyn must be wrong about two points, i.e. (1) that her father left Cochin 

 after the Dutch took it, which was in 1663, and (2) that Juliana was born in Bengal. 

 If Juliana was born in Bengal after 1663, she could not have been, as asserted by 

 Valentyn, 55 years old in 1712, whereas, if she was born in 1658, as Gentil has it, 

 who married in her family, she would have been 54 years old in 1712. Fr. Emmanuel 

 Figueiredo, S.J . , says she was born shortly after Zu-1-Qarnain' s death. Gentil appears 

 to have the correct date of her birth. In that case she was not born in Bengal, as 

 Gentil also says ; for I take it that her father is the renegade, who from Cochin passed 

 to Bengal, and was brought to Agra after the capture of Hugli (1632-33), as we now hear 

 from Fr. Botelho. My reason for identifying him with the renegade is that we hear of 

 one Agostinho Dias in Mogor before 1663. Manucci refers to him. They were to- 

 gether in Multan. "One day, a Portuguese by name Agostinho Dias begged me to 

 abandon the company of the eunuch [Basant], because he knew of a certainty that 

 there existed an order of Aurangzeb for his seizure and execution ." The information 

 proved correct. Basant was killed shortly after at Lahore in 1659. (Storia do Mogor, 

 I. lxxix, 363-365;. By itself, this passage does not prove our contention. It must be 

 compared with a Persian biography of Juliana referred to by Mr. Beveridge in his 

 article on Dona Juliana {East and West, Bombay, July, 1903), the translation of 

 which biography by Prof. E. H. Palmer was published in Maltebrun's Nouvelles 

 Annates des Voyages, vol. for 1865. This biography connects Juliana and her mother 

 with the capture of Hugli, the two having been made slaves, it is asserted, to one of 

 Shah Jahan's ladies. In the case of Juliana this is impossible, since she died in 1732, 



My earlier discussion of these inscriptions will be found in E. A. H. Blunt, op. cit., 191 1, Nos. 984-87. I had not 

 seen the stones then. 



* Cf. supra, p. 163, n. 3. 3 The statement in Gentil may be borrowed from Valentyn. 



