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SEPTEMBER, 1897.) CURRENCY AND COINAGE AMONG THE BURMESE.
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1833. "21 tungas tilla or 11 8. 9.097 d." - Bokhara Money Tables in J. A. S. Bengal, Vol. VII. p. 898.
1841. - "Coin, dinga .... medal, an ancient coin, let-haung-dinga .... medallion, haungthaw-dinga-gyi .... money, dinga, kye, ngwe . . . . rupee; chank-mû dinga." - Lane, Eng.-Bur. Dict. pp. 66, 267 f., 276, 358.
1843. - "The first princes used dinars and dirhems, like the califs. These were succeeded by tankhas, divided into dams and jitals. Shir Shah changed the name of tankha to that of rupeia or rupee which was adopted by Akbar. And the latter prince fixed the weight and relative valne of money, on a scale, which remained unaltered till the dissolution of the Mogul empire, and is the basis of that now in use." - Elphinstone, Hist. of India, Vol. I. p. 208.
c. 1845. — “ The monetary system of the Tibetians consists entirely of silver coins, which are somewhat larger, but not so thick, as our francs .... The entire coin is called TchanKa." - Fuc, Travels, Ill. Lib. Ed... Vol. II. p. 146.
1847. - "Taka, coin, rupee." - Yate'. Bengali Grammar, p. 381.
1852. "Deenga, a circular piece of metal, stamped, whether for & coin or a medal." - Judson, Bur. Dict. p. 176.. . 1852. - "Tangga - & wedge or ingot of the precious metals .... ingot, mass of gold or silver, tangga." - Crawfurd, Malay Dịct., 8.0.
1852. - "Tank, Persian, a weight of about two ounces, .... tanka, Persian, gold, money, a certain coin .... tanga, Persian, cash, gold or copper coin .... d&nak, danik, danak, da wanik, arabic, the sixth part of a dram or two carats, also a small silver coin ; (Persian) dink, the fourth part of a dám, (according to some) the fourth part of a miskal; danak, a small grain, the fourth part of dram, a sixth of anything." - Johnson, Pers.-Arab. Dict. pp. 300, 388, 389, 554.
1854. - Taka, two pice, a copper coin equal to two pice; in the plural it means also mouey in general.” -- Ludhiana Dict. of Panjabi, p. 203.
1855. - "Tanks, in the forms take and tanga (for these are apparently identical in Grigin) 'is in all the dialects laxly used for money in general.'" - Wilson, Glossary, 8. v. in Yule, Hobson-Jobsor, 8. o. tanga.
1857. -"Faka, an aggregate of 16 Sivarai pice; also an aggregate of four pice, an îņa; also as in Gajarat an aggregate of three pice. Money .... also used for a rupee, Sakdâ pañch tako .... tank (Skr. tanka), a weight, according to some, of one told or the 72nd part of pakka sêr: according to others, of nine misê; according to others of four misê... (poetry) a rupee or any silver coin." - Molesoortk, Marathi Dict. pp. 337, 338.
1857. - "The tankha appears to be the coin represented by the modern rapee, and, perhaps, when at its proper standard, was of about the same value .... Hence the value of one tenka at the latter part of the fifteenth century may be fixed at about two shillings." - Major, India in the 15th Cent. Vol. III. p. 20.
1858. -"Skr, tanka, tank, also Pers. tanka, gold, money, a particular species of coin." - Thomas, note to p. 22 of his ed. of Prinsep's Usuful Tables.
1860. - "Ttanga'h, a copper coin, money." - Raverty, Pukhto Dict. p. 294.
1865. -- "The great unit of nediæval and modern times is the taka of not less than 145 grains, of which six make the chha-taka or chhatak, equal to 870 grains, or nearly two ounces; and 100 make the sataks or ser, the derivation being sat-taka or 100 takas .... Then 80 ratis or 145-832 was the weight of the tangka of copper." - Cunningham quoted in Thomas, Initial Coinage of Bengal, J. A. 8. B., 1867, p. 6.
