Indian Antiquary Vol 26

SR No.: 032518
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 360
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SEPTEMBER, 1897.
1866. -- "The identity of Ibn Batuta's Indian dinar and the silver tengah will be seen to be beyond question when this note bas been read through." -- Yule, Cathay, p. 439.
1866.-"Tangah always means with Ibu Batuta a gold coin. Sometimes be calls it a gold dinar," - Yule, Cathay, ccxi.,.viii.
1869. - The dam in the Aiu-l-Akbari, and consequently in most revenue accounts, is considered to be the fortieth part of a rupee; bat to the common peeple it is known as the tiftieth part of a taku." - Beames, Memoirs on the Rices of the N.-W.P., Vol. II. p. 81.
1871. - "The most striking item disclosed by the details of the above table is the essens tially indigenous character of the divisional contents of the tankah, and its analogous fractional subdivisions, both of which follow the ancient Indian quaternary scale of numeration in all its integrity." - Thomas, Pathan Kings, p. 220.
1871. "Moreover, it may be seen distinctly that the Tankah was the accepted and recognized term in India, by the fact that the great Mahmûd of Ghazni (c. 1000 A. D.), while continuing to make use of the ordinary mint designation of Dirham in the Kafic legend of his new Lahore mint of Mahmûdpur,' admits the corresponding word taka or tanka in the Sanskțit legend on the reverse." - Thomas, Pathan Kings, p. 49.
1871. - "The tengi of Khwarizm would appear to have been worth the fourth of a crown." - Astley's Voyages, Vol. IV. p. 484, in Thomas, Pathan Kings, p. 49.
1871. - "In Telugu, tankam is 'a coin formerly current, now used only in account, equal to four silver fanams. There was a gold tankam and a copper coin similarly named, both obsolete'.... The Russian, dengi." - Thomas, Pathan Kings, p. 49.
1871. - "At the exchange of 2 . per tankah, the jital would, therefore, correspond in valae to 1 farthings, or rather less, as the 2 s. is a very high rate of exchange for the old silver piece (of 1303-1315]." - Thomas, Pathan Kings, p. 161.
1872. - "Tanka, a spade, hoe, hatchet .... a weight of silver) equal to four mashas or 24 raktikis .... a stamped coin .. .. tankapati, the master of the mint .... tankasala, a mint .... tankaka, a stamped coin especiaily of silver, silver money .... tankakapati, the master of the mint or superintendent of the silver coin .... țan kaka-sâlâ, a mint .... tanga, another form of tanka, a spade, a boe . . . . & weight of four måshas ...."Monier Williams, Sanskrit Dict. pp. 355, 356.
1872. - "Dhanaka, a weight of gold, a gold coin, part of a dinara.... dhanaka, a copper coin worth about two pence." -- Monier Williams, Sanskrit Dict. p. 453 f.
1873. *** One tangah (of Akbar) = 2 dâms; now-a-days one tangah = 2 páis." - Blochmann, Ain-i-Albari, p. 37.
1873. - "A tank is valued at 4 mislias, but it must have weighed a little more." - Blochmann, Ain-i-Akbari, p. 16.
1874. - "Tangka, a coin." - Haswell, Peguan Language, p. 67.
6. 1876. - "The normal weight of the pagi, taking the reti seed at from 1.75 to 1.8 grains, was from 140 to 141 grains. Afterwards when coin was stamped the payî was called the-copper tangka, or stamped piece, a name which still survives in the modern takka, the double paisa." - Cunningham, Arch. Survey, Vol. X. p. 78.
1878. - "Tangah, a money of account used in Tarkistên consisting of 25 small copper cash (of Chinese make with square holes through them).... the value of the tungab varies constantly in the bazars according to the number of tangah that may be given for a kura (a Chinese silver ingot weighing about 2 lbs. and worth about Rs. 170). ..." - Shar, Eastern Turkestan in J. d. S. B. for 1878, p. 69 f.