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applauded, but of which the point is invisible to us. The author of the 
Darbar-i-Akbari tells the story as a joke, p. 39, but fails to explain it* 
Possibly the point consisted in an allusion to the ‘Isa who was a rebel 
in Bengal, or it may be that the point consisted in asking an ignorant 
man like Akbar the explanation of a grammatical nicety. 
A more interesting reference to Christianity is found at p. 256 of 
Yol. Ill of the Akbarnama, where Akbar, in the course of speaking about 
the Hindu custom of Satl, observed to the Catholic priests that such 
sacrifice of life on the part of women would be more comprehensible in 
their country, as respect to women was part of their religion, and also 
as there a man was confined to one wife. 
At p. 42 General Maclagan quotes a passage from the Akbarnama 
(Bib. Ind. ed. III. 577) about one Padre Farmaleun. 
Formerly I suggested that this might be Fra Emmanuel Pinheiro, 
but General Maclagan has shown that this is untenable. 
I have now scarcely any doubt that the person meant is, as General 
Maclagan has suggested, the Greek Sub-deacon Leo, or Leon Grimon. 
Probably Abul Fazl rendered the initial G by a Q and wrote 
and the copyist missed one dot, which is all the difference betwen fa 
and qaf when the letters are joined. The dictionaries tell us that qaf 
is sometimes used for gaf , and indeed this must be the case in Arabic 
as that language has no G. An India Office MS. has Farbitun, and 
another has Farmilun. There is also the form Faribtun. Apparently 
the surname has been placed before the Christian name and the name 
written as if it were Grimonleon. 
What helps us to identify Grimon the Greek with Farmaleon is 
that Abul Fazl tells us that Padre Farmaleon was employed in making 
translations of Greek books. It would seem that though Grimon or 
Farmaleun came from Goa, he had not come from Europe. 
He had been returning to his own country when he touched at Goa, 
and presumably he was on his way home from China, for his companions 
brought China goods with them. That Grimon stayed on at Akbar’s 
court for a considerable time we know from Du Jarric’s account, who 
tells us that Grimon had a crown a day from Akbar, and that he relin¬ 
quished this, and also left his wife behind him when he accompanied 
Benedict Goes to Yarkand. 1 Abul Fazl’s account enables us to know 
the date of Grimon’s arrival at Lahore, for what he tells is, that he arrived 
on 26th Farwardin of the 35th year, that is, 5th or 6th April 1590. 
This makes it impossible that Farmileun is a mistake for Edward Leio- 
ton, as the latter one did not arrive till 1591. Leioton, too, did not stay 
1 Da Jarric says Yarkand, but apparently Sir Henry Yule says that Grimon 
turned back at Kabul. 
