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month of that year—on the 6th day of Aban—Salim mounted the throne. 
F ortkwith in that same month of Aban coins were struck at the Ahmada- 
bad mint in the name of Salim, but bearing still as their date the year 
50. Each succeeding month of that year Salim’s coins issued from 
Ahmadabad, these coins showing the name of the month of issue and 
the year 50. When the new solar year began the same type of coin was 
struck, but with the date Fai’wardin 2, and during the first four months 
of this year 2 that issue continued with the mere change consequent 
upon the change of month. In the fifth month Salim (or, as he was 
now called, Jahangir) introduced his new type of coin—the well known 
“heavy rupees” 1 —with their entirely new legend* Besides substitut¬ 
ing his imperial name Jahangir for his birth-name Salim, he also so far 
at least as the Ahmadabad coins are concerned, dropped the year 2 from 
these coins, and now for the first time admitt ed the year 1. As yet only 
one New Year’s Day (of the solar year) had occurred in his reign, and 
he now elected to count from that day his Ilahi year I. 2 
Thereafter most of his coins bore both the date of the Hijri (lunar) 
year and also the number of the regnal (solar) year—thus 1015-1, 1015- 
2, 1016-2, 1016-3, 1017-3, &c &c. 
In order to indicate the precise period to which the coins struck for 
Salim at Ahmadabad should, in my opinion, be assigned, I have drawn up 
the following Table of Synchronisms of the Arabic and Persian months 
for the three years beginning 10th March, O.S., 1605. In the Waqi‘at-i- 
Jahangiri it is definitely stated that the third solar year of Jahangir’s 
reign opened on a “ Thursday, the 2nd of Zu’l hijja, corresponding 
with the 1st of Farwardin.” Dowson-Elliot: VI. 316. With this as 
starting-point the construction of a Table of monthly synchronisms for 
the three preceding years presents no difficulty. It is only necessary to 
bear in mind— 
(а) that in the Hijri year months of 30 and 29 days alternate, one 
day being added to the last (short) month of any intercalary year ; 
(б) and that in the Persian year each month is of 30 days, but 
that 5 days—the gathas—are always added to the end of the last 
month. 
1 The Ilahi rupees of Akbar and Salim’s rupees invariably weigh each just a 
few grains under 180, but Jahangir’s heavy rupees rose at a bound to 215, and three 
years later to 222 grains. 
2 “Jahangir counts the years of his reign by the solar reckoning, and the first 
“year of hi 3 reign as commencing on the New Year’s Day next after his accession, 
“ with the entrance of the Sun into Aries, which corresponded with the 11th Zu’l 
“qa'da, 1014 A.H. (10th March, 1606 A.D.),” Dowson-Elliot, History of India, 
VI. 290, note 2. 
