234 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
as the ws is unmistakably clear on the plate (P.M.C., Pl. XVIII, 
No. 355). I venture to say that what the die- cutter wrote or 
meant to write was wl »~, an alternative or indifferent 
form of y.« which finds mention in the Akbarnama, and is re- 
cognised also by the Persian lexicographers. In his ‘ Account 
of the Establishment of the New and Divine Era,’ Abil Fazl 
gives the names of the thirty days of the /Ja@h? month, and 
states that the name of the 16th day (which was also that of 
the 7th month) was ‘ Mihrgan or Mihr. (Akbarnama, Tr. Bever- 
idge, IT, 16, Text, II, 10.) 
Now wl= ,¢* is only the Arabicised form of wy as ine 
is no 4 in the Arabic alphabet. wls is, therefore, in reality 
identical with 4 , 4.e. the seventh month. Witness the de- 
finition in the Dughan: -t-Qat ‘i. 
OF to ee wv Fy Sy wr? wy 9? ase 4 oe Bs ses 
be 51 poine slo Ali 5 slo ya 51 paspil® jy) ili y cme usinogar camre 9 910 
eslOR! BF ylae oy yo emt lille UIT ways OT, dl nod 
* tam ol as 
‘ Mihrjan with jim, of the same measure as Mihrban, is 
the Keabisioed form of Mihrgan..... Mihrgan with the Persian 
Kaf (t.e. Gaf), of the same measure and having the same 
meaning as Mihrjan, which is its Arabicised form. It means 
‘love ’ and ‘ the attachment of friendship.’ [It is also] the name 
of the 16th day of every month, and the name of the 7th month 
of the solar year, and that is coincident with the stay of the 
world-illuminating sun in the constellation As the Balance and 
the commencement of the oe Ee autum 
The Ghiyagu-l-Lughat 
PBT Lalle woe oly whd ie e et By ly WF 
ss a Ey eo 
Pur on eee lee Gol 9 gill we oe 
ae — with Kasr (or zer), name of the autumnal month, 
and that is the period — which the sun remains in the 
dicatelinicn of the Balan 
Hihrjan with Fath (or ee and the * ra’ also with Fath 
(or oe earn form of Mihr, rgan 
e may take the net result of this discussion to be that 
the etn is Paice and that the doubts which have been 
