Note 183 — The Fifteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

But the next page of text records another feast of the lunar weighment. Can it be that the lunar weighment refers to Nūr Jahān’s birthday, not to Jahāngīr’s? The 17th here mentioned is the 17th of the solar month of Dai, and corresponded to about December 28, 1620. In the following page (324) we are told that the lunar weighment took place on 30 Bahman, corresponding to 25 Rabīʿu-l-awwal—i.e., February 8, 1621: Jahāngīr’s birthday was on Rabīʿu-l-awwal 17, so the anniversary fell this year on 22 Bahman. Consequently, if he celebrated it, as stated on p. 323, on 17 Dai, he did so more than a month too soon! Evidently there is a mistake somewhere. ↑