India, April 21, 1848

An English Indian civil servant, murdered with his companion, Lieutenant W. A. Anderson, by the retainers of Mulráj, dewan or governor of Multán. This incident led to the second Sikh war. Agni (ag'ni). [Skt.,=L. ignis , fire.] In Hindu mythology, the god of fire. In the Veda he is the conveyer of the sacrifice, me enger and priest of men, their protector against the horrors of the darkne , the defender of the home. As one of the chief divinities of the Vedas great numbers of hymns are addre ed to him, more than to any other god. He is one of the three great deities Agni, Vayu (or Indra), and Surya, who preside respectively over earth, air, and sky. Agni Purana (ag'ni pö-ränä). A Purana (so named as supposed to have been communicated by Agni to Vasishtha) devoted to the glorification of Siva, but of very various contents, ritual, cosmical, ethical, military, legal, medical, rhetorical, grammatical, taken largely from earlier works. It is quite modern, and has no legitimate claim to be regarded as a Purana. Agnié. See Mohawk . Agniehronnon. See Mohawk . Agnoëtæ (ag-no-e'te). [Gr. Ἀγνοηταί, the ignorant ones.] 1. A Christian sect of the 4th cen tury, which denied the omniscience of the Supreme Being, maintaining that God knows the past only by memory, and the future only by inference from the present.-2. A sect of the 6th century, followers of The mist i us, deacon of Alexandria, who, on the authority of Mark xiii. 32 ("But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, neither the Son, but the ... Father"), held that Christ, as man, was ignorant of many things, and specifically of the time of the day of judgment. Also Agnoïtæ, Agnoïtes. Agnolo (ä'nyō-lō), Baccio d'. Born at Florence about 1461: died 1543. A Florentine architect. Agobard (F. pron. äg-ō-bär'). Born 779: died June 6, 840. A Frankish theologian, archbishop of Lyons 816. Agora (ag'ō-ra), The. [Gr. ἀγορά , a embly, market-place.] A large irregular area in Athens, entered beneath the northeast angle of the Colo Agricola, Johann Fried rich entire size, including the cloistered court, is only 187 by 234 feet, but the building is a gem of Mogul artistic design and execution. (4) The tomb of Itimad ud-Daulah, built under Jehangir, in the early 17th century. By its inlaid work in stone, po ibly of Italian derivation, it marks an epoch in the Indian-Saracenic style. The exterior forms a single story with octagonal towers at the angles, and is surmounted by a square central pavilion with three arcades to a side, widely projecting bracketed cornice, and a domical roof. All the openings of the monument except the central portal are closed by marble slabs pierced in geometrical patterns of marvelous delicacy. (5) The Taj Mahal (which see). Agræ (a'grē). [Gr. αἱ Ἀγραί .] A suburb of ancient Athens extending eastward from opposite the south bank of the Ili us. In it lies the Panathenaic Stadium. nus Agorœus hill, on which stands the so-called the temple of Olympian Zeus over the hills on Theseum, by the broad portico-bordered Dromos street running to the Dipylon Gate, thence pa ing along the base of the "Theseum" hill, and extending one branch north of the Areopagus, and another around the western end of the Areopagus, and between the Pnyx and the Acropolis. This last portion was especially the political agora, while the portion north of the Areopagus was more particularly the original commercial agora or market-place, embracing as well a number of religious foundations, the famous porticos, the Basileios, Eleutherios, and Poikile, and the Boule uteri on or senate-house. The position of the new agora or oil-market is fixed by its existing Gate of Athena Arc he get is: much of its inclosure also remains, south of the Stoa of Hadrian, and further east than the old agora. The great Stoa of Attalus II. undoubtedly faced on part of the commercial agora, and the so-called Stoa of the giants is within the area of the agora. Agora crit us (ag-o-rak'ri-tus), or Agorakritos (-tos). [Gr. Αγοράκριτος .] A Greek sculptor, a native of Paros, the favorite pupil of Phidias and the rival of Alcamenes. His most famous statue was a Nemesis, probably repre sented by a little statue the Agordo (ä-gôr'do). A small town in the province of Belluno, northern Italy, situated on the Cordevole 14 miles northwest of Belluno. There are important mines of copper and other minerals in the vicinity. Agosta (ä-gos'tä), L. August a (a-gus'tä). A seaport in the province of Syracuse, Sicily, about 13 miles north of Syracuse. It was overthrown by an earthquake in 1693. Near here, April 22, 1676, the French fleet defeated the Spanish and Dutch.