Indian Antiquary Vol 26

SR No.: 032518
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 360
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SEPTEMBER, 1897.
1554. - Y. 8. v. Budgrook. - "Bagar'ucos at Maluco (Moluccas) 50 = 1 tanga, at 60 reis to the tanga, 5 tengas = 1 pardao." - A. Nunez, p. 41.
1554. - Y. 8. v. joetul. - "In Sunda, .... the cash (caixas) here go 120 to the tange of silver." - 4. Nunez, p. 42.
1554. - Y. 8. v. bargany in Supplt. - "Pay in land revenue according to ancient custom 36,474 white tanguas, 3 barguanis and 21 leals, at the tale of 3 barguanis to the tangua and 24 leals to the barguanim, the same thing as 24 bazarucos, amonnting to 14,066 pardaus, 1 tangus and 47 leals, making 4,201,916 2/5 reis." - Cotelhu, Tombo in Subsidios, p. 46 f.
1559. - Y.8.v. tanga.- The old Muscovite money is rot round, but oblong or egg-shaped, and is called donga 30 .. . 100 of these coins make a Hungarian gold piece :.6 dengas make an altin; 20 a grifna; 100 a poltina ; and 200 a ruble." - Herberstein in Ramusio, Vol. II. p. 158 v.
1571. - "Gujarati tankchahs at one hundred tankchahs to the rupee. At the present time the rupee is fixed at 40 dams .... As the current value of the tankchah of Pattan, etc., was less than that of Gajarât." - Mirát-s-Ahmadi in Bayley, Gujarat, pp. 6, 11.
1680. "We learn from Balbi that there were at Goa tangas, not only of good money worth 75 basarucchi, and of bad money worth 60 basarucchi, but also of another kind of bad money used in buying wood, worth only 50 basarucchi."-Yule, Hobson Jolson, 8. v. pardao in Supplt.
1580-1589. - "Later in the century, however, we learn, from Balbi (1580), Barrett (1584) and Linschoten (1583-1589), that the principal currency of Goa consisted of a silver coin called xerafin or pardao-xerafin, which was worth 5 tangas, each of 60 reis." - Yule, Hobson-Jobion, 6. v. pardao in Supplt.
1584. — Y. .v. pardao in Supplt. - "This kind of money is called basaruchi and 15 of these make a vinton of naughty money, and 5 vintons make a tanga, and 4 vintenas make a tanga of base money ....and 5 tangas make & seraphine of gold,31 which in marchandize is worth 5 tangas good money; but if one would change them into basaruchie he may have 5 tangas and 16 bazaruchies, which matter they call carafaggio, and when the bargain of the pardaw is gold, each pardaw is meant to be 6 tangas good money." - W. Barrett in Hakluyt, Vol. II. p. 410.
1584.-Y. 8. v. pardao in Supplt. -- "The ducat of gold is worth 9 tangas and a halfe good money, and not stable in price, for that when ships depart from Goa to Cochin, they pay them at 9 tangas and three-fourth partes, and 10 tangas, and that is the most that they are worth." - W. Barrett in Hakluyl, Vol. II. p. 410.
1592-3. - "At the present, namely, A. H. 2002, Hindustan contains 3,200 towns, and upon each town are dependent 200, 500, 1,000 or 1,500 villages. The whole yields a revenue of 640 krors moradi tankas." — Tabakát-i-Akbari in Elliot, Vol. V. p. 186.
1598.-Y. . v. tanga. - "There is also a kinde of reckoning of money which is called tangas, not that there is any such coined, but are so named only in telling, five tangas is one pardaw, or xeraphin badde money, for you must understande that in telling they have two kinds of money, good and badde, for foure tangas good money are as much as five tangas badde money." - Linschoten, ch. 35.
1598. - Y. 8. v. pardao in Supplt. - " They have a kind of money called pagodas which is of Gold of two or three sorts and are above 8 tangas in value.... There is yet another kind of golde called S. Thomas, because Saint Thomas is figured thereon and is worth about
30 This refers saga Yule to the copper tanka
51 Translating, however, from Balbi serafinino di argento.