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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... authority for sixteen rupees : but the ratio of gold to silver has been of late years higher in the Calcutta market , especially for the purer coins , so that the new mohur generally passes for 16 to 17 , and the old gold - mohur for 17 ...
... authority for sixteen rupees : but the ratio of gold to silver has been of late years higher in the Calcutta market , especially for the purer coins , so that the new mohur generally passes for 16 to 17 , and the old gold - mohur for 17 ...
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... authority of Delhi was annihilated , the representative of the monarch in the various Soubahs or provinces alone exercised the privilege of coining : and that even when it was assumed by chieftains already in actual inde- pendence , the ...
... authority of Delhi was annihilated , the representative of the monarch in the various Soubahs or provinces alone exercised the privilege of coining : and that even when it was assumed by chieftains already in actual inde- pendence , the ...
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... authority . The chiefs of Jhansi and Jaloun cited the sanction of the Peshwa : the Tehrce Raja , the tacit permission of the English . No notice however of mints was found in any of the sunuds or treaties to which that officer had ...
... authority . The chiefs of Jhansi and Jaloun cited the sanction of the Peshwa : the Tehrce Raja , the tacit permission of the English . No notice however of mints was found in any of the sunuds or treaties to which that officer had ...
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... authority . A list and plate of these sym- bols , confessedly imperfect , follows the catalogue of coins , but it may be convenient to assemble together here a few of the groups , whose connection is otherwise confirmed by the preceding ...
... authority . A list and plate of these sym- bols , confessedly imperfect , follows the catalogue of coins , but it may be convenient to assemble together here a few of the groups , whose connection is otherwise confirmed by the preceding ...
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... authority , it may be presumed , of stand- ards in existence in the city , making the beega 3136 sq . yards . = The results of the different modes of determination resorted to in 1824-5 , so characteristic of the rude but ingenious ...
... authority , it may be presumed , of stand- ards in existence in the city , making the beega 3136 sq . yards . = The results of the different modes of determination resorted to in 1824-5 , so characteristic of the rude but ingenious ...
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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.