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Bibl. Ind. Text, p. 228, seven lines from foot. 
‘¢ And it was settled that the patronymic (=45) of that 
sovereign should be Abi-l-Muzaffar and his auspicious surname 
(iH) was to be Sahib Qirin the Second, because the infidel- 
destroying sword of that Solomon-like Padishah had driven 
away the demons of strife and disorder from the face of the 
between his praiseworthy qualities and ways, and those of His 
Majesty the Great. Sahib Qiran, but the Baiyinat of the word 
Sahib Qiran, viz. 365, were found to be exactly equal to the 
numerical value of the letters of Shah Jahan.” ' 
In other words, the real reason for Shah Jahan’s assump- 
tion of the title was not astrological or ‘ horoscopic,’ but 
cabalistic, and had its origin in those fanciful notions of the 
occult properties of numbers which still form an important 
part of the magic and thaumaturgy of the East. 
The Abjad value of the letters of w= sl was found equal 
to the Baiyinat of wly qale, and the Emperor took this pro- 
-vidential coincidence as an infallible prognostic of his own 
reign proving as long and glorious as that of his ancestor, and 
felt perfectly justified in reviving the title in the Khutba and on 
the coins after a lapse of more than two centuries. 
Now the Abjad value of wke w& is 365. Thus, .#=300, 
f=ls=5, ¢ =3, 3=5,1=! w = 50; 300 +1+5+3+4+5+1 
+ §0= 365. 
But what are the ey of wis qrale ? 
There are in the books on the > ple twelve different 
modes of disjoining (383), permuting and combining the 
thirty letters of the Arabic alphabet for purposes of divina- 
tion? One of these twelve rules or methods is employed as 
1 The corresponding passage in the Badishahnama of ‘Abdul Hamid 
Lahori is so similar that its translation would be a work of supererogation. 
It is therefore given below only in the original. 
tlogk et yo a 1) grliuals we ym cgay 45 oes} a odogey9 is! 
rmblgec gy captive Ba} py? yn cope jt tay 6F lay ay UI otyS ale 
Bibl. Ind.’ Text, I, i, 96, J. 4-12. 
2 These rul really derived from the Jewish Kabbalah. ‘* Accord- 
ing to the Kabbalah all these esoteric doctrines are contained in the 
- Hebrew Scriptures. The uninitiated cannot perceive them ; but they are 
