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cutting power of these Bwords was compared with that of other 

 swords, they stood at the very head of all swords." 



The Tuzuh i Jahdngirk (p. 329) — from which this account, as 

 everything else, was copied by the author of the Iqbalnamah — states 

 that the burned ground measured 10 to 12 gaz, not cubits, and that 

 the weight of the meteorite was 160 tolahs. The two swords received 

 the name of Shamsher i qdti' (cutting sword), and Shamsher i barq- 

 sirisht, (lightning-natured sword.) 



Regarding the time of the fall, the Tuzuh i Jahdngiri says that 

 it took place on the 30th Farwardin (Akbar's Era) in the morning. 

 The Iqbdlndmah and the Tuzuh state that the 1st Farwardin cor- 

 responded to Monday the 27th RabV uldkliir 1030, A. H. 



Now the first Muharram (New Year's Day) 1030 fell, according to 

 Prinsep's Tables, on Thursday the 16th November, 1620 ; and as the 

 27th Rabi' ulakhir is the 116th day of the year, it would correspond 

 to Sunday the 11th March, 1621. But the Tuzuk clearly states that 

 the 27th Rabi' ulakhir was a Monday — which difference arises from 

 the fact that Muhammadans reckon the day from sunset to sunset, 

 but not, as we do, from midnight to midnight. 



Hence the 1st Farwardin (day-time) corresponds to Monday the 

 12th March, 1621; and the 30th Farwardin, the day when the 

 meteorite fell, would be Friday, 10th April, 1621, old style. 



The weight of the meteorite is mentioned to have been 160 tolahs. 

 Akbar's tolah — 12 Mashahs [1 Mdshah = 15-5 grains troy (Useful 

 Tables, p. Ill)], = 186 grains. Our tolah weighs 180 grains. 

 Hence the meteorite would have weighed nearly 5271 lbs. troy. 



The President said that in the Catalogue of Meteorites and Fireballs, 

 by 11. P. Greg, Esq , given in the reports of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science for 1860 (Oxford meeting) this fall is 

 noticed under " 1620, April 17, Jalindher, Lahore, 7 lbs. (?) weight: 

 stated to be an Iron fall ; 1621 ? fell with great light and noise." 

 Notwithstanding the discrepancy in date this is obviously the same fall. 

 It is particularly interesting as one of the very few falls of Iron which 

 have been actually observed, and perhaps the only authentic fall of a 

 meteoric iron in India. From the fact stated that the mass when worked 

 by the blacksmith ' crumbled to pieces under the hammer ;' it is pro- 

 bable thai there was some admixture of stony matter with the iron. 





