190 H. HOSTEN ON 



aged 75. l In the case of her father and mother, I consider that, in the light of Fr. 

 Botelho's allusion, the Persian biography in correct. Juliana's father became medical 

 attendant of Prince Muazzam and died in Golconda shortly before Prince Muazzam 

 was imprisoned by his father, which latter event took place in March 1686. (Cf. H. 

 Beveridge's article in East and West, op. cit.). The author of the Persian biography 

 was alive in 1774 and appears to have been related to Juliana's descendants. His 

 name, which has been read Gastin or Gaston Brouet, must be Augustine Bravette 

 or Bravet, also corruptly written Bervette. About the Bravettes see p. 180 above. 



APPENDIX D. 



Some Unknown Persons. 



Mr. H. Beveridge found in the ( Amal Salih an allusion to two brothers, who were 

 great in Hindustani and Greek music, and who had the curious names of Baqbai or 

 Baqhai and Fath Hai. " I wonder," he writes, e< if they were Armenians." (Letter 

 0) June 8, 1913). From conversations with Mr. Mesrovb J. Seth I gather that Hai is 

 a distinctive Armenian title, that the Hais are the sons of Haik, the founder of the 

 Armenian nation, Armenia being called Haiastan. (Cf. his Hist, of the Armenians in 

 India, p. 3). 



In the beginning of the first volume of the ( Amal Salih there is question of a 

 Mansur Firinghi, who, in the 16th or 17th year of Jahangir's reign, was in command 

 of 8000 Decanis. He must be the Mansur Khan Farangi whom we find mentioned in 

 the Tuzuk-i-J ahanglrl (A. Rogers' and H. Beveridge's translation), II. 258, 271. In 

 1623, he was raised to the mansab of 4,000 personal and 3,000 horse, but was killed 

 the same year when, in a fit of drunkenness, he went to attack single-handed a body 

 of his enemies. 



There is in the Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal a Persian treatise on 

 medicine, materia medica and surgery, the Tuhfat el Masiha. Dr. D. Hooper, who 

 took an interest in the book, gathered from it some details concerning the author, 

 one Dominic Gregory Yutist [?], also known as Dakhani Begbin Raphael Yutist, 

 surnamed Lazar Begbin Joan Yutist or Yahya Begbin Ibrahim Begbin Qaraqash 

 Begbin Yunas (Jonas) Beg. He was a Greek Christian and a native of Aleppo in 

 S)rria, whence his ancestors came to India and settled in Shahjahanabad (Delhi). 

 Dakhani Beg, according to his own statement in the preface, was a pupil of Sylvester 

 Cross [da Cruz ?]. He left Shahjahanabad and settled in Udaipur as a servant of 

 Jagat Singh, the Udaipur Rana. It was here that he compiled his Pharmacopoeia in 

 1749 and dedicated it to his patron, Rana Jagat Singh. 2 We add this note with the 

 faint hope that someone may chance to throw light on this curious genealogy. 



1 Gentil, Mem. sur I'lndoustan, p. 378. The Viceroy of Goa writes in 1715 that she was already more than 70 years 

 old ! Cf. J. A. Ismael Gracias, Uma dona Portugueza, Nova Goa, 1907, p. 163. 



2 From a letter of Dr. Hooper to the author (Calcutta, May 2, 1912). 



