1844.] 



Notice of the Ajaib-ai- Mukhlukat. 



643 







Rumi 



Months * 













Days. 





Brought 



over, 



Days. 

 182 



Tisrin I. 





31 



Nisan, 







30 



.. II. 





30 



Ayar, 







31 



Kanun, I. 





31 



Hanzan, 







30 



„ II. 





31 



Pamuz, 







31 



Sevat, 





28 



Ab, 







31 



Azar, 



•• 



31 



Elul, 





•• 



30 





Carried over, 182 





1 



otal, 



.. 365 







Persian Months. 









The Persian months consist of 30 days each, giving to the year 360 

 days ; but 5 days are annually added to the month Aban, which nearly 

 completes the solar year. The month of Fernurdin commences the 

 Persian year about the time of the autumnal equinox. 



Names and order of the Persian months : — 



1. Fernurdin. 



2. Ardibihist. 



3. Khurdad. 



4. Tir. 



5. Murdad. 



6. Shahryur. 



7. Mahar. 



8. Aban. 



9. Azur. 



10. Di. 



11. Bahman. 



12. Isfandarmas. 



Besides the division of the month into weeks, like other lYIahomedan 

 countries, the Persians have a separate name for each of the 30 days 

 composing the month. 



The author enters into a description of the months and of remarkable 

 feast days among the Mahomedans and Persians. 



* The names of the Rumi months are identical with those of the Syrians, who 

 as well as the Greeks, adopted the era of Seleucus Nicator, dating 311 years and four 

 months before Christ. The Syrian Greeks began their year in the month Elul, or 

 September, and other Syrians in Pishrin 1, or October: the Jews about the autumnal 

 equinox. The Hindee bolar months commence in September with Aswini. 



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