Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder16/Note3

This passage is translated by E.G. Browne in A Traveller's Narrative, p. 423. "From all this it would seem that the restoration of the old Persian solar year in place of the Arabian lunar year; the solemn sanctioning of the great national festival of the Nawruz, which corresponds with the beginning of the solar year, the quickening of the earth after its winter torpor, and the entry of the Sun into the sign of Aries; the division of the year into nineteen months of nineteen days each; and the nomenclature certainly of some and probably of all of these months were integral portions of the system devised by the Bab; while the provision of five intercalary days and the enactments relating to their observance were supplementary details introduced by Beha." Ibid. p. 424.