Indian Antiquary Vol 33

SR No.: 032525
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 514
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

Page 343

DECEMBER, 1904.)
HOME ANGLO-INDIAN TERMS.
317
Fol. 82. A Very good Cow is Sold at Hugly] for foure Shillings Six peace Viz! 2 rupees, a good hogg for of a Rupee, 45 or 50 fowls for one Rupee, 6: 7: and sometimes 8 marind of rice for one Rupee.
Fol. 86.y! poore Orixas, whoe Indeed I may well call poore... I have often been in theire Villages, and where there have been more then 20 families of them, they cold not all change one Rupee into cowries, whereby to be paid for a little milke or fish (or what else wee had of them) in yo currant moneys of this Kingdome & Orixa: and Arackan.
Fol. 86. [Cowries] agreat quantitie passe for one Rupeo not lesse then 3200.
Fol. 94. The Coyned Currant moneys of this Kingdome (Bengala] are rupees, balfe rupees and quarters ....They alsoe Coyne Rupees here of y: finest refined Gold, wo are called Gold Moors, ... The Rupee att 0016 02. 03d.
Fol. 102. yet they are as good here as ready Rupees.
See Yule, 8. v. Rupee. The above quotations are interesting as additional evidence that the form "rupee" bad become fixed by the last quarter of the 17th Century.]
ST. THOMAS'S MOUNT. Fol. 29. Six miles to the Southwards of ffort S Georges standeth Severall mountains pretty high y! One of woh is called 8' Thomas's Mount....... Vpon y! top of Mount 8' Thomas groweth neturaly a very remarkable tree. Not in Yule.
BT. THOME. Fol. 25. A Naique that lived neare Mylapore via$ 8' Thome. Fol. 29. y. ffrench who in y. yeare 1672 tooke yCitty St Thomæ from y! Moor's forces.
Not in Yule. Now a part of Madras town. N. and E., 1080, bas St. Thoma throughout pp. 38, 39, 43.).
BALAAM. Fol. 24. This Silly Creature . .Salam'd to all her friends, Especially to y! Brachmans.
Fol. 78. And this he accompted a Salam, Fol. 91. before whom they doe and must dance and Singe and make many Salams, Bee Yule, s. v. Salaam. I know of no earlier instance of the use of “Salaam" as a verb.)
**SALEM POORY. Fol. 31. Very Considerable quantities of these followinge Commodities are here [Pettipolee] wrought and Sold to fforaign Merchants viz : ...... Salampores.
Fol. 134. The most Proper and beneficiall Commodities woh are for this place [Janselone] : be.. . Sallampores.
Fol. 158. ffrom y? Coast of India and Choromandell are brought hither, ... Longeloth Salampore's, white and blew.
See Yale, s. v. Salempoory. [? Divinity. N. and E. p. 16, for 22nd April 1680 :- Salampores Blew, at 14 Pagodas per corge (score]-P. 17 for 6th May," in Longoloth and Salampores : for England." P. 24 for 19th June, "Salampores, fine: Salampores, ordinary." The Salampoory was probably therefore an article of a definite size, like the Palempore, or bed-spread.]
- SALLEETER. Fol. 181. jmmediately they giue it out that y! Saleeters came up to y towne in yg night and committed that and many more Villanies .. .. The Saleeters are absolute Piratts and often cruiseinge about Janselone & Pullo Sambelon &o, Jales Deare this Shore (Malay Coast).