100 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
follows. The letters are pronounced by their names (e.g. alif, 
ba, ta, sa, jim, etc.) and divided into Zabar and Baiyinat or 
Baniyé t. The ah letter of the name of each of the signs, 
, w, w, &, is the Zabar, and is cast out. The value of 
. és remainder sabe the Cai sles in the Abjad system of 
notation is taken into acco 
Thus wt)§ pale is sae up of 
ale, Wi, le, b, GU, ft), Wi and w,). 
Eliminating the initials, 
5 Ps cis a> wage fs nd y, 
and taking the Ahjad value of the remainder, we have 
sh=1+4; H=304+80; '=1;1=1; Gt=14+80;1=1; A 
=30+80; ws=6+50; 
ie. 5+110+1+1+4+81+1+4+110+56=365. 
Briefly, the Emperor assumed the title because in this 
numerical coincidence, “the deep-sighted saw a sign, and en- 
quirers got a hint from above ” of his reign being destined to 
be as glorious as cps of Timur. The reason, if it deserves to 
be so called, may appear to us very fantastic, but there can be 
little doubt as to the powerful appeal thus made to the ima- 
gination of even the most cultured persons in those times. 
Abul Fazl, for a lays great stress on the fact of his elder 
brother Faizi aving discovered that the numerical value of 
the name yt was equal to the Abjad value of the Baiyinat of 
wlisT (Sun). 
“ Among the excellencies of the name [ ,aS! } which is full 
of wonders, there is one, which my honoured elder brother, . 
plainly revealed to the spiritaily. minded, who ests the: the: pr itech 
import ot this net set nat beneath the surface of the letters and words of 
Holy vee obtain these heavenly mysteries, definite hermeneuti- 
eal ocas are ‘emp eek of which the following are the mo 
(1) The words of several ve e placed over each other, and t 
letters are form to new words by reading them vertically. (2) The 
words of the text are ran in squares in suc ad either 
vertically or Loong a (3) The words are joined together and 
redivided. (4) The in rm 
into separate words. (5). Every letter of a word is reduced to its numer- 
ical value, and the word is explained by another of the i 
same quantit 
(6) Every letter of a word is taken to be the initial or abbreviation of 
word. (7) twenty-two letters of the a phabet are divided into two 
halves; one half is e the other ; t letters which 
thus become associated are baste . By this permutation, A 
the ‘first letter of the ag mes Lamed, the twelfth letter ; Beth 
comes Mem, and so o This cipher alphabet is called Albam from the 
first interchangeable pails mutation of the twenty-two 
letter: b last letter . the pao abet taking the place of t 
he 
thas ” Gingb “ae : Bergin dso forth. This cipher 
. insbu ‘ ith 
ed., Art. Kabbalah), — rem in * Bncyclopaedia Britannica,’ 11 
