Indian Epigraphy c15.s1.t11.4

c15.s1.t11.4

He also changed the numerical value of the letters of the alphabet as recognised in the Abjad system and introduced the Abtas system based on the position of the same letters in the Arabic alphabet.¹ New names of the years and months had to be coined in accordance with the new system.² The names of the year according to the Abtas system are found on Tipū's coins. Among records of Tipū's time, a Marāṭhī document in Moḍī script is stated to bear the date : Cha 14, Māhe Takī Sāl Sāhar San 1221. According to the Mavlūdī reckoning and the Abtas system, the year Sāhir (year No. 47) corresponds to the cyclic year No. 47 (Pramādin)=Śaka 1715 (1793-94 A.D.) while Takī is month No. 3 (i.e. Jyaiṣṭha).³