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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... latter ( hitherto an imaginary coin ) was called the pie of account . At Madras and Bombay an English device has been introduced for the copper coinage ; on one side the E. I. Company's arms ; on the other , in the Bombay coin , a pair ...
... latter ( hitherto an imaginary coin ) was called the pie of account . At Madras and Bombay an English device has been introduced for the copper coinage ; on one side the E. I. Company's arms ; on the other , in the Bombay coin , a pair ...
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... latter being a gold coin and the former of silver ; but fanams were also coined of base gold . Copper i . v . x . and xx . cash pieces were coined in England by contract for Madras so early as 1797 ; the xx . cash is also called , dodo ...
... latter being a gold coin and the former of silver ; but fanams were also coined of base gold . Copper i . v . x . and xx . cash pieces were coined in England by contract for Madras so early as 1797 ; the xx . cash is also called , dodo ...
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... latter merely " impress or stamp * . " The following notes concerning the origin of particular mints , and the amount of their issue are derived as before stated , from the reports of Messrs . Wellesley , Molony , Wilder , Maddock ...
... latter merely " impress or stamp * . " The following notes concerning the origin of particular mints , and the amount of their issue are derived as before stated , from the reports of Messrs . Wellesley , Molony , Wilder , Maddock ...
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... latter nation also they make use of decimal divisions in estimating the value or purity of gold and silver , and their systems of weights and measure follow the same convenient scale . We are indebted to Major Burney , Resident at Ava ...
... latter nation also they make use of decimal divisions in estimating the value or purity of gold and silver , and their systems of weights and measure follow the same convenient scale . We are indebted to Major Burney , Resident at Ava ...
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... latter at 378 , pose for a rupee . From the small advantage of melting up copper money , it happens that much of the cir- culation in this metal is of very great antiquity ; and not only many ancient Hindu coins are met with , but ...
... latter at 378 , pose for a rupee . From the small advantage of melting up copper money , it happens that much of the cir- culation in this metal is of very great antiquity ; and not only many ancient Hindu coins are met with , but ...
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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.