Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society: Part the First, Coins, Weights, and Measures of British India |
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... . BRITAN Design for the British Indian Rupee . INDIA TAST COMP ONE RUPEE 1834 พ DIG : GULTELMUS MARSR CALCUTTA : 1834 . ( ASHMOLEAN OXFORD MUSEUM 1 FEB 1956 CONTENTS AND TABLES . PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS , CIRCULAR ROAD .
... . BRITAN Design for the British Indian Rupee . INDIA TAST COMP ONE RUPEE 1834 พ DIG : GULTELMUS MARSR CALCUTTA : 1834 . ( ASHMOLEAN OXFORD MUSEUM 1 FEB 1956 CONTENTS AND TABLES . PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS , CIRCULAR ROAD .
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... Calcutta Mint from 1801 to 1833 , TABLE XII . - Coinage of the Benares , Furukhabad , and Sagur Mints , ... TABLE XIII . — Imports and Exports of Bullion , 57 58 59 Scheme of Indian Standard Tola and Mun Weights , .. 62 ...... TABLE XIV ...
... Calcutta Mint from 1801 to 1833 , TABLE XII . - Coinage of the Benares , Furukhabad , and Sagur Mints , ... TABLE XIII . — Imports and Exports of Bullion , 57 58 59 Scheme of Indian Standard Tola and Mun Weights , .. 62 ...... TABLE XIV ...
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... Calcutta Mint , to face page .... III . - Symbols on Modern Indian Coins , II . - Modern Coins of India , Vignette of the designed British Indian Rupee , on the title page . Design for the Copper Coin of Bengal ... 38 53 56 59 BRITISH ...
... Calcutta Mint , to face page .... III . - Symbols on Modern Indian Coins , II . - Modern Coins of India , Vignette of the designed British Indian Rupee , on the title page . Design for the Copper Coin of Bengal ... 38 53 56 59 BRITISH ...
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... Calcutta , and 15 rupees for the gold rupee of Madras and Bombay ; but it is not demandable in payment , and is left to find its current value in the market . Copper coin is only a legal tender at the established rate of 64 pysa to the ...
... Calcutta , and 15 rupees for the gold rupee of Madras and Bombay ; but it is not demandable in payment , and is left to find its current value in the market . Copper coin is only a legal tender at the established rate of 64 pysa to the ...
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... Calcutta Mint . حامي دين محمد سایه فضل اله سکه زد بر هفت کشور شاه عالم بادشاه Defender of the Muhammedan faith , Reflection of Divine excellence , the Emperor Shah Aulum has struck this coin to be current throughout the seven climes ...
... Calcutta Mint . حامي دين محمد سایه فضل اله سکه زد بر هفت کشور شاه عالم بادشاه Defender of the Muhammedan faith , Reflection of Divine excellence , the Emperor Shah Aulum has struck this coin to be current throughout the seven climes ...
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Agra Akber April Arcot Assay avoirdupois Bahoo bazar Beega Benares Bengal Bombay British brother bullion Burmese Calcutta cent Ceylon Chaitra China Chinese chitaks Christian Chron coinage coins commencement Company Company's cycle Delhi deposed deva ditto Dutch dwts dynasty Emperor English epoch factory February Furukhabad rupee gold mohur Government Governor grains Gujerat Hejira Hindu India Indore inscription intercalary Jaya July June Kali Kali yuga Khan king Kota lunar luni-solar Madras Mahmud Malwa March mashas maund mints Mogul mohur month moon Muhammed Muhammedan muns Nagpoor native pagoda Patna Persia princes Prome pysa Rája reckoning reign rupee Saka Samvat seers Sept Shâh Shah Aulum Sholan sicca rupee Sidereal Zodiac silver Sinh Sinha solar standard Surat Tibet Tibetan tolas troy ud-din Vadiyar weight YUDHISTHIRA བ བ བ
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Page 8 - JEWISH ERA. The Jews usually employed the Era of the Seleucides, until the fifteenth century, when a new mode of computing was adopted by them. Some insist strongly on the antiquity of their present era; but it is .generally believed not to be more ancient than the century above named. They date from the creation, which they consider to have been 3760 years and 3 months before the commencement of our era.
Page 163 - The United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies.
Page 10 - PERIOD is a term of years produced by the multiplication of the lunar cycle 19, solar cycle 28, and Roman indiction 15. It consists of 7980 years, and began 4713 years before our era. It has been employed in computing time, to avoid the puzzling ambiguity attendant on reckoning any period antecedent to our era, an advantage which it has in common with the mundane eras used at different times. By subtracting 4713 from the Julian Period, our year is found. If before Christ, subtract the Julian Period...
Page 6 - Christians have adopted a slight alteration, which will be shortly explained, "the simplicity of this form has brought it into very general use, and it is customary for astronomers and chronologists, in treating of ancient times, to date back in the same order from its eommenceinent.
Page 7 - ... equal to 5503. This computation continued to the year 284 AD which was called 5786. In the next year, (285 AD,) which should have been 5787, ten years were discarded, and the date became 5777. This is still used by the Abyssinians.
Page 16 - ... 12 y, hog. By substituting these words for the letters in the cycle, under the head of China, the Japanese names are found. Thus, the first year of a cycle is called kino-je ne, the 35th, tsutsno-je in, and so on.
Page 159 - And knowing that a distinction of titles is in many respects necessary, we do order, that when the apprentices have served their times, they be...
Page 14 - As all those nations follow the same system, we shall detail it here more particularly. They have two series of words, one of ten, and the other of twelve words ; a combination of the first words in both orders is the name of the first year ; the next in each...
Page 10 - THE JULIAN PERIOD is a term of years produced by the multiplication of the lunar cycle 19, solar cycle 28, and Roman indiction 15. It consists of 7980 years, and began 4713 years before our era. It has been employed in computing time, to avoid the puzzling ambiguity attendant on reckoning any period antecedent to our era, an advantage which it lias in common witli the mundane eras used at different times.
Page 15 - THE JAPANESE have a cycle of 60 years, like that of the Chinese, formed by a combination of words of two series. The series of ten is formed of the names of the elements, of which the Japanese reckon five, doubled by the addition of the masculine and feminine endings, je and to.