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Art. XXVI.—Tārīkhs or Eastern Chronograms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

C. J. Rodgers
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It is well known that every letter in the Persian alphabet has a numerical value. These values are perfectly conventional. They are as follows:—

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , October 1898 , pp. 715 - 739
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1898

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1 I see Mr. Stanley Lane Poole, in his “Aurangzeb,” p. 167, gives this tārīkh as which yields but 1091 h. or 1680 a.d. He is right. The tārīkh given in the text is that of the death of Sambhājī, son of Sīvājī. Beale has misprinted Sīvājī for Sambhājī on p. 282.