1888.] H. Beveridge —Father Jerome Xavier. 33 
This bait I have before translated thus : — 
Ranjit Deo peopled this part, 
Lachhmi Narain made glad its heart. 
1 am aware that many more coin couplets exist, but I think the 
above and those on the coins of Jahangir give a very fair idea of this 
kind of literature. It is somewhat amusing, and it is curious. It is 
somewhat helpful in the assigning of coins to their proper strikers. 
Ahmad Shah Durrani used his coin couplet nearly everywhere, but 
Ahmad Shah of Dehli used no coin couplet, but styled himself on his 
coins Both these Ahmads began to reign in the same year. Of 
course the couplet coins belong to the Durrani. On some coins only 
part of the inscription comes. A few words from the couplet enable us 
to assign the coin to the proper king. Besides all this these couplets 
are historical compositions. They show us the vanity and ignorance of 
the kings who used them, and the flattery and ignorance of those who 
made them. 
Father Jerome Xavier.—By H. Beveridge, Esq., C. S. 
In looking over our Library Catalogue I noticed the entry of a book 
by Father Jerome Xavier, called Historia Christi Persica, and printed 
at Leyden in 1639. On getting it out I found that it was a diglot, 
having Persian and Latin on alternate pages, and that its full title was 
Historia Christi persice conscripta, simulque multis modis containinata, 
ap. Hieronymo Xavier, Soc. Jesu, latine reddita et animadversionibus 
notata a Ludovico de Dieu. The author of this work is said to have been 
a native of Navarre in Spain, and a near relative of the great St. 
Francis. According to one account he was his nephew. It appears, 
however, that he ordinarily wrote in Portuguese. He came to Ooa in 
1571, and there held the office of Goanee domus praepositus (prior?). 
In 1594 he went on a mission to the emperor Akbar. 
This was the third Jesuit Mission to Akbar’s Court. The first* 
* There was an embassy to Akbar in 1578 under Antony Cabral, and there were 
priests with it, but I do not know if they were Jesuits. Mr. Rehatsek has a valuable 
article on the Jesuit missionaries in the Calcutta Review for January 1886. He quotes 
Bartoli’s work, which I have not seen, though I have read some extracts from it 
in the Storia dei Viaggiatori Italiani delle India Oriental! of Angelo de Gubernatis. 
Mr. Rehatsek had apparently only access to the Lucknow edition of the Akbar- 
nama, and so states that the only priest mentioned by Abu-l-Fazl is one Padre 
Farmalyun. The account of Padre Radif, i. e., Father Ridolfo Aquaviva, will 
be found in Vol. Ill, pp. 254, 255, ed. Bib. Ind. Padre Farmalyun is mentioned 
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