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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JULY, 1898.
Serial Nos, of quartettes.
No. of sil.
Name.
Sense of Dene.
såmanga... ... ...
500 sâmanga yângkhai starok ... .. sátaruk yang khai sataret ... ... såtarêt yângkhai sânipân ... Bảniệân vângkhai sâmâpad... ..
900 samapan yang khai ...
950 lishing and lishing-ama
1,000 160 lishing-ani
2,000 240 lishing-ahîm ...
3,000 320 lisbing-mari
4,000 100
400 Jishing-mapg26...
5,000 The following comparison can now be made to clinch the argument as to how the scale of sel took its particular form:
Mari
...
Reckoning by cowries.
Reckoning by sól.
4. kausis are 1 ganda 20 ganda ,, 1 paņ 5 paņ , 1 âņa
4 sel a re 1 gångkhai 20 yângkhai 1 lishing
- 1 hủpa27
As I have already pointed out (ante, Vol. XXVI, p. 290), whon the revenge of Sifhet was paid in cowries, about 5,000 cowries were reckoned to the rupee. The actual reckoning in accounts was 5,120 cowries to the rupee. This came about by the use of another popular scale. In the Lilavati, as has been explained in the previous Section,
20 cowries are 1 kákint
4 kâ kiņi 1 pana 16 paņa
dramma 1,280
Chantipal in the Bengali characters: Primrose, p. 30. 38 Spelt lining and so transcribed by Primrore, p. 80. These terms mean really 1, 3, 8, 4 and 6 kching.
27 Written ripa. This is the recognised term for a ropee in Manipur : vido Primrose, Grammar, Panim. It must not be understood that a Mapipfiri would so express his soule if questione l.
