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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SEPTEMBER, 1897.
• 1201. -"That kind-hearted king awarded him from his treasure a large dish-full of gold and silver tankas worth about 10,000 silver tankas." -Tabakát-i-Násiri in Elliot, Vol. II, p. 318.
1236. He (Ruknn'ddin Ftrôz) would ride out drunk upon an elephant through the streets and bazaars, throwing tankas of red gold around him for the people to pick up and rejoice over." - Tabakát---Nasiri in Ellioi, Vol. II. p. 332.
1259.-"A silver tanka was offered for every head and two tankas for every man brought in alive." - Tabakát-i-Násiri in Elliot, Vol. II. p. 381,
1802. - "On the following day, contrary to his expectation, the King (Alau'ddin Khilji) sent for the Kazy and received him with great kindness. He conferred on him a handsome gold embroidered vest, and a purse of 1,000 tunkas." - Briggs, Ferishta, Vol. I. p. 353.
1325.-“Nizamooddeen Ahmud Pukhshy surprised at the vast sums stated by historiang to have been lavished by this Prince (Muhammad Taghlaq) took the trouble to ascertain, from authentic records, that these tunkas were of the silver currency of the day, in which was amalgamated a great deal of alloy, so that each tunke only exchanged for 16 copper pice." - Briggs, Ferishta, Vol. I. p. 410.
1330.-Y. s.v. Bargany in Supplt. - "Thousands of men from various quarters, who, possessed thousands of these copper coins, now brought them to the treasury, and received in exchange gold tankas and silver tankas, shashgânts and dûgânis, which they carried to their homes." - Tárikh-i-Firoz Shahí in Elliot, Vol. III. p. 240 f.
1335.-Y. . v. tangas. -"According to what I have heard from Shaikh Mubarak, the red lak contains 300,000 golden tankans, and the white lak 100,000 (silver) tankahs. The golden tanka, called in this country the red tanka, is equivalent to three mithkals and the silver tanka is equivalerit to 8 hashtkâni dirhams, this dirham being of the same weight as the silver dirham current in Egypt and Syria." - Masálil-al-Abşár in Notices et Estraita, Vol. XIII. p. 211.
c. 1347. - Y. 8. v. tanga. -"Then I returned home after sunset and found the money at my house. There were 3 bags containing in all 6,233 tankas, i.e., the equivalent of the 55,000 dinars (of silver), which was the amount of my debts, and of the 12,000, which the Sultan had previously ordered to be paid me, after deducting of course the tenth part according to Indian custom. The value of the piece called tanka is 2 dinars in gold of Barbary." ** - Ion Batuta, Vol. III. p. 426.
c. 1350.- "Sultan Firôz issued several varieties of coins. There was the gold tanks and the silver tanka." --Tarikh-i-Firós Shahi in Elliot, Vol. III. p. 357 f.
c. 1350. — "When the Sultân had issued these many varieties of coins, it occurred to his benignant mind that a very poor person might bay an article in the market and a half or a quarter jital might be due to him in change, but, if the shopkeeper had no dange, no change could be givon .... so the Sultân accordingly gave directions for the issuing of A half jital, called adhi, and quarter jital called bikh." - Op. cit., loc. cit.
1404. - Y. . v. tanga. — “yna sua moneda de plata que llaman tangaes." - Clavijo, f. 46 b.
1447.- Tirhůt tribute of the Tirbûti Rájá: 250,000 silver tankas and 2,750,000 black tankas." - Erskine, Baber and Humayun, Vol. II. p. 54, in Thomas, Pathan Kings, pp. 117, 387.
26 Yule adds," here the gold tanga ie spoken of."
