Indian Antiquary Vol 27

SR No.: 032519
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 404
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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JONE, 1898)
CURRENCY AND COINAGE AXONG THE BURMESE.
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(Burmese however) silver assayer, appraiser (p. 1050). Besides these, I have unearthed the following terms: For "pures silver :"
Page 496.-Sas*** (), clean, p. 569): seasòat's (2“, water, p. 797 :47 fatà (tò, true,
p. 765): atòculo : shindadas (mad, hammered, p. 1149).
Page 299.-- Kloposé cod (money ; white-pure-silver-white : pp. 299, 1001, 495, 1225). For alloyed alvor
Page 298. - K16, lit., white. Page 298. - Klobasé hó, silver modey.
Page 495 f. - Posé, pekiépisè, silver paid in advance (pė, payment in advance, p. 998). For money
Page 495.- Sótábó (56, silver, t'ú, gold). Page 496. -Sélanghi, sekamghi-sekamghá, sekamgki-sekamghô, silver chips, small
silver change. Page 496,- Sényl, Barmese lump silver (ryd, texture, substance, p. 595). Page 496. - Sedspilö, Siamese stamped silver, plano-convex pieces of specific
value," as the Dictionary quaintly puts it (dò, measured, p. 887, plö, round).
Page 496. - Seyüp 8, Siamese small silver (yt, bits, p. 1162, p', small parts, p. 1063). As regards gold the Dictionary has most curious information:- Thus, tú is gold (p. 812): red gold is called male gold (tüpt, p. 1051) and pale yellow gold is called female gold (timo, p. 1145). Red gold is considered the parer. This, of course, is, within limits. a mistake, though it is shared by the Burmese and others; the redness of gold being chused by the less valuable copper, spd not by the more valuable silver alloy of pale Oriental gold.
There are giver on p 818 a series of terms for "pate" (i. e., I gather, "good quality, acceptable") gold: thus :
Túaštt (), pure, p. 509, tf, water, p. 797). Túsdt-ison6 (nd, water, p. 927). T'att (tí, perfoot, p. 731). T'atitikang. redtu (th, water, p. 987).
T-ali (). Other words for gold given loc. cih have, as I understand, the meanings attached below:
Lump gold ... ... felld (td, convex, p. 839).
» , .. ... t'&"blètő (lè, burnt, p. 1204). Alloyed gold ... Am (més, fire, p. 1188). Impare gold, balion. "Dabghe (babghè, scam, froth, p. 1263). Gold-duat ... telkami, tdkami t'akase (kand, dust, p. 99).
takt (M, bits, p. 235).
Soil good, patable, marketable
* sé means money, but fundamentally barter. . Shinwam, water, - sloo Snepers of metale. #Also dative silver bullion.
The win-o'-the-whisp, ignus faturit, is, sooording to the Karena, an animal of gold tinol, which lays golden ergo see t' and t'en pghd, p. 819 t.