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APRIL, 1873.]
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CALEN DAR OF TIPU SULTAN.
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TABLE A.
- % ºf ºr ºf
1
set-i Ahmedy ... 20 Chaitra.........
2
Jº Bºry ... 30 Vaikh ......
3
syº- Ja'fury
...
29
gº tº Hāshemy . 6 g”-19 Wäsay ... 7 see J.S Dzuburjuly 8 ºs jeº-Hydery ...
29
5
Vishabha.
s. 3's. Behary.
gº
30 Jaishtha ...... Mithina...!
ºly's Dārāy......
4.
Mesha...... º “el Ahmedy. Tâqy.
Ashādha ...... Kataka … $5.2° Sumry. Srāvana … silhã...... sjkº Ja'fury.
Wrishika...
(s"?” Deeny.
Dhanàssi. .|
. .” - Dzikiry.
} {)
30 Bhºpal. 29 Awuyi, ... 30 Rugia ...... º';* Túiny ...... 29 Mārgaśīrsha. . g”; Yusify ... 30 Pāshya ......
11
ºf 332' Izedy ......
Kºmbia.
12
& 3%. Byászy......] 30 Phâlgán ...... |Mina ......
9
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29 Māgha.........
Colonel Kirkpatrick says: —“Though the foregoing names are not absolutely unmeaning, yet they would not appear to have had any appropriate signification attached to them, with the exception of the first, called by one of the names of Muhammad, and of the eighth or Iſidery, which might possibly have been so denominated in honour of the Sultan's father, as Tuluy might likewise have been in allusion to its being the month in which the Sultan
Kanyà ... ºve:- Hydery. Tula ...... is 32-º- Khásrowy. -
Makara ... ***, Réhmany.
- L Rádzy.
gº2 Rubény.
known notation called e-E'ſ Uljul, which as signs a certain numerical power to every letter in the alphabet. There being no single letter to express either eleven or twelve, the first two
letters of “s 3.32 Izedy and sºlº By’szy added together denote the place of each respectively in the order of months.
Thus
(Al(ſ) | + ... (yº) = 1 + 10 = 11, and (Bé) - + -s (ſê) = 2 + 10 = 12. The verse after the first word of which the
himself was born.”
notation is named, as well as the numerical
With respect to the last column in the table, Colonel Kirkpatrick says that the first ar rangement was after some time superseded by another; the Sultan having, as there is reason to believe, made a second reform of the calendar in A.D. 1787-88.
The latter altera
power assigned severally to the letters compos ing it, is thus given in Richardson's Dictionary
under the word 3+'ſ Uljud. e, 5 e - = • 3 º'
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tº
<>
→ ~ +
tion would not appear to have extended further
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than to the substitution of new names for the
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months and years in the place of those first assigned to them. I have said that the principle according to which the number of days is determined is peculiar. If the table be examined, it will be seen that while the last seven months consist of
twenty-nine and thirty days alternately, accord ing to the Muhammadan system, in the first five months that rule is not observed.
It differs
also from the Hindú year, because the months
of that always consist of thirty days, or rather titlis (fāfī) as they call them. The point of interest in the names of the months is that the initial letter of each denotes
its place in the calendar, according to the well.
to
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Richardson's explanation of the word Ubjud is as follows:– “The name of an arithmetical
verse the letters of which have different powers
from one to a thousand. This was probably the ancient order of the alphabet.” The verse itself is formed by just writing together the letters, in order of the Arabic alphabet, in groups of three or four or more, as in the first instance pleased the whim of the contriver. Each letter has a numerical signifi cation attached to it, as is the case in the
Roman system of notation. This Ubjud nota tion applies only to the series of names first given by Tipú Sultan to the months. The