Note 188 — The Fifteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

This is the Armenian of whom so much is said by Father Botelho and other missionaries. It is mentioned in M. Wāris̤’s continuation of the Pādis͟hāh-nāma, p. 392, of B.M. MS., that Ẕū-l-Qarnain Farangī came from Bengal and presented poems which he had composed on S͟hāh Jahān’s name, and got a present of Rs. 4,000. He it was, probably, who entertained Coryat. The passage in the text seems to show that Akbar had an Armenian wife. ↑