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G. A. Grierson —Bangdli version of the Lord’s Prayer. [May, 
Millins, in which was inserted a grammar of the Hindustani language 
composed by John Joshua Ketelaer, for some time Ambassador of the 
Hutch East India Company, to the Great Mogol, at Agra. Ketelaer’s 
Hindustani version of the Lord’s Prayer is given by Signor Teza and 
will bear reprinting as a curiosity. It runs — 
Hammare baab—Ke ivho asmaanmelie—Paak hoee teere naom—Auwe 
hamko moluk teera—Hoe resja teera—Sjon asmaan ton sjimienme—Bootie 
hammare nethi hamkon aasde—Oor maafkaar taxier apne hamko^-Sjon 
mafkarte apre karresdaar onkon—Nedaal hamko is was wasfeme—Belk 
hamko ghaskar is boerayse. Teerse he patsjayi } soorrauri alemgiere heamet - 
me. Ammen. 
I owe to the courtesy of Mr. W. Irvine, the following information 
about Ketelaer. He was accredited to Shah ‘Alam Bahadur Shah 
(1708-1712) and Jahandar Shah (1712). In 1711 he was the Dutch 
Company’s Director of Trade at Surat. He passed through Agra both 
going to and coming from Lahore (via Delhi), but there does not 
seem to be any evidence available that he ever lived there, though the 
Dutch Company had a factory in that city subordinate to Surat. The 
Mission arrived near Lahore on the 10th December 1711, returned to 
Delhi with Jahandar Shah, and finally started from that place on the 
14th October 1712, reaching Agra on the 20th[October. From Agra 
they returned to Surat. A detailed account of the Embassy, [taken 
from a diary kept by one Ernst Coenraad Graaf, first sworn clerk 
to the Embassy, will be found in E. Valentijn’s Oud en Nieuw 
Oost Indien, Yol. IV. (Ed. 1726), pp. 282-302. Some further parti¬ 
culars concerning Ketelaer will be found in Ost Indien und Per - 
sianische Beisen, von Johann Gottlieb Worms , Aus Hobeln ., oder . , 
aus Licht gestellt durch M. Crispinum Weisen Past. Zu. Mochau, 1st Ed. 
Dresden 1737 ; 2nd Ed. Leipzig 1745, 8vo. From this 1 we learn that 
Ketelaer was also called Kotelar, Kessler, or Kettler, and that he was 
a Lutheran born at Elbingen in Prussia. In 1716 he had been three 
years Director for the Dutch Company at Surat. He was then ap¬ 
pointed their envoy to Persia and left Batavia in July 17 J 6, having- 
been 30 years in the Dutch Service, or in the East Indies. He was a 
heavy corpulent man, and died of fever at Gambroon on the Persian 
Gulf on his return from Isfahan, after having been two days under 
arrest, because he would not order a Dutch ship to act under the 
Persian Governor’s orders against some Arab invaders. 
I take this opportunity of drawing attention to some early works 
on Indian languages which have come to my notice since I wrote 
1 Second Ed., pp. 22, 247, 248, 303. 
