Indian Antiquary Vol 27

SR No.: 032519
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 404
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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FEBRUARY, 1898.]
To a Collection of Voyages undertaken by the Dutch East India Company, 1708, there is an Appendix (p. 245 ff.) to the First Voyage, 1595-7, "Of the Weights, Measures and Coyn of the East Indies." From the statements in this Appendix can be worked out the following table: -
A.-Malayan Weights.
CURRENCY AND COINAGE AMONG THE BURMESE.
22 Tayels are 1 Cates 200 Cates 1 Bahar
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B. Chinese, i. e., Commercial Weights.
10 Conduris (candareens) are 1 Mase
10 Mase67
1 Tayel
16 Tayels
100 Chinese Cates 68
3 Picols
4 copong are 1 mace 16 mace
1 tale
Out of Lockyer's statements in Trade in India, 1711, p. 42, can be gathered the following as a table for Acheen :
And for Malacca, p. 70
B.
5 tale
are 1 buncall
20 buncalls
,, 1 catty Mallay
200 catty Mallay, 1 bahar 3 Pecull China
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,, 1 Cate
", 1 Picol
» 1 Bahar
For Johore coins:
16 mace are 1 buncall (P 20 buncalls),, 1 catty
100 catties ,, 1 pecull (187 lbs.)
3 peculls
1 bahar
For Acheen weights:
20 bankaals make 1 catty For Acheen coins:
A.
1200-1600 cash make 1 mace 16 mace, 1 tayel
From Alexander Hamilton, Appx. to Vol. II. pp. 8 f. of his East Indies, 1739, we can make out the following statements:
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4 coupang make 1 macie (gold)
For Java and Malacca, Avoirdupois weights: -
40 pecul make 1 quoin (koyan)
I. e., for metals and fine goeds: 26 taola per catty for coarse goods, and 14 taels at Malacca.
Cati, pp. 147, 157: cari, p. 198 (P by a misprint).
Bar on pp. 274, 281, 288, relating to the Second Voyage, 1598.
* In Bantam, 8 mace to a tael.
Lockyer always takes the "common China Pecull" at 182 lbs.
"And 663 Malay catties."