510 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1906. 
that Salima died at the age of 76. She was born, he states, on 
4 Shawwal 945, 23 February 1539, and consequently about four - 
years before Akbar (he was born 15th October 1542, so that she 
‘was his senior by about three years and seven months), and the 
chronogram of her birth was khish-hal (Felix, and equal in 
abjad to 945). Her mother Gulrukh died four months after her 
birth, The note is in the handwriting of the copyist Mirza 
tami 
But this copyist was not merely a scribe. He was also the 
author of a book of dates called the Tarikh Muhammadi, Rieu 
III, 895a, which was written in 1124, 1712. The statement that 
Salima died at the age of 76 is also given there, p. 140, 
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