Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c53.18

c53.18

A favourite mode of recording Hijra dates is by the numerical values of the letters in some short phrase, or chronogram, descriptive of the event commemorated. This system is called *Abjad*, from the first four letters of the Hebrew alphabet, from which the scheme was borrowed, namely, *a, b, j, d*. The whole scheme is as follows:—