Muntakhab al-lubab 28: Second Year of the Reign (1659 a.d.).

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[vol. ii. p. 77.] The second year of the reign commenced on the 4th Ramazan, 1069 a.h. * * The Emperor's name and titles were proclaimed in the pulpit as "Abu-l Muzaffar Muhiu-d din Muhammad Aurangzeb Bahadur 'Alamgir Badshah-i Ghazi." In former reigns one side of the coins had been adorned with the words of the creed and the names of the first four Khalifs; but as coins pass into many unworthy places, and fall under the feet of infidels, it was ordered that this superscription should be changed [for certain couplets containing the Emperor's name].
[vol. ii. p. 79.] Since the reign of the Emperor Akbar the official year of account and the years of the reign had been reckoned from the 1st Farwardi, when the Sun enters Aries, to the end of Isfandiyar, and the year and its months were called Ilahi; but as this resembled the system of the fire-worshippers, the Emperor, in his zeal for upholding Muhammadan rule, directed that the year of the reign should be reckoned by the Arab lunar year and months, and that in the revenue accounts also the lunar year should be preferred to the solar. The festival of the (solar) new year was entirely abolished. Mathematicians, astronomers, and men who have studied history, know that * * the recurrence of the four seasons, summer, winter, the rainy season of Hindustan, the autumn and spring harvests, the ripening of the corn and fruit of each season, the tankhwah of the jagirs, and the money of the mansabdars, are all dependent upon the solar reckoning, and cannot be regulated by the lunar; still his religious Majesty was unwilling that the nauroz and the year and months of the Magi should gives their names to the anniversary of his ac-