1920. ] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXIV. sé 
(p. 16), 1,002 of the Hijri Era (p. 28) and 963 years by the 
Yazdajardi reckoning had elapsed at the time of writing (p. 28). 
— jab, 1 
nama, Text, III. 667) = 10th March 1595 A.C.’ (Old Style). The 
i ; i C., of 
19th October 1595 A.C. Old Style (S. Pillai, Indian Chronology, 
Cowasji Patell, Chronology). The basis of three other synchron- 
isms occurring elsewhere in the same volume is again the 
40th year. ‘ Towards the close of the Dwapar Yig, 135 years 
before the beginning of the Kali Yag, and 4,831 years anterior 
to this the 40th of the Divine Era, this event [the War of the 
Mahabharat] arose into fame, and was left to posterity as a 
record of portentous warning”’ (Jarrett, II. 283). We are also 
informed that an ascetic named Mahabah flourished in Malwa 
Divine Era (p. 381). 
Once more we are expressly told, at the commencement 
of the invaluable statistical «« Account of the Twelve Sibahs ” 
which occupies more than three-fourths of the sccond volume 
of Colonel Jarrett’s translation, that “i the 40th year of the 
Divine Era, His Majesty’s dominions consisted of one hun 
b 
Jarrett, IT. 115 
Lastly, we find the author thus lamenting the death of 
his brother in what may be truly called the Epilogue to his 
great prose-poem. “ Scarce half of the first book [y= peo}had 
and that free spirit 
10th Safar, 1004 A.H. (15th October 1595 A.C.). Akbarnama, 
Text, III. 673, 1. 4; Lowe, Badaoni, II. 420. 
It will be seen that in every one of the 
the year of writing is invariably identifi 
of these articles,” Aba-l Fazl writ 
es, “ha 
computed and fixed by contract with the camel-drivers. But 
