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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... pure metal was then reduced in a trifling degree to adjust the ratio of its value to that of silver as 15 to 1 * . The new gold - mohur therefore weighs ths of a rupee , and passes by authority for sixteen rupees : but the ratio of gold ...
... pure metal was then reduced in a trifling degree to adjust the ratio of its value to that of silver as 15 to 1 * . The new gold - mohur therefore weighs ths of a rupee , and passes by authority for sixteen rupees : but the ratio of gold ...
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... Pure Alloy . gold . Weight Weight Legal value . in grains . in tolas . Old Calcutta - gold mohur * , with an oblique milled edge , 189.4037 1.4913 190.895 1.060 New standard - gold mohur , 16 Sa. Rs . with a straight milling ...
... Pure Alloy . gold . Weight Weight Legal value . in grains . in tolas . Old Calcutta - gold mohur * , with an oblique milled edge , 189.4037 1.4913 190.895 1.060 New standard - gold mohur , 16 Sa. Rs . with a straight milling ...
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... pure Gold in 100 parts . Intrinsic produce Madras and Bom- bay Gold Mohurs . in Tolas , or in Calcutta Gold Mo- hurs of 204.710grs . 95.035 100 1 0 Wo . 87.500 95.454 104 Wo . 87.239 95.170 95.674 94.787 9 3 Br . 99.740 108.861 1 3 Br ...
... pure Gold in 100 parts . Intrinsic produce Madras and Bom- bay Gold Mohurs . in Tolas , or in Calcutta Gold Mo- hurs of 204.710grs . 95.035 100 1 0 Wo . 87.500 95.454 104 Wo . 87.239 95.170 95.674 94.787 9 3 Br . 99.740 108.861 1 3 Br ...
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... pure silver 1200 X 89.583 - 100 1075 tolas pure . III . 100 20 - franc - pieces , weighing 55.319 tolas , at 0 1J c . grs . Wo . yield 55.319 X 86.430 100 47.812 new gold mohurs . These tables , and indeed all that are inserted in the ...
... pure silver 1200 X 89.583 - 100 1075 tolas pure . III . 100 20 - franc - pieces , weighing 55.319 tolas , at 0 1J c . grs . Wo . yield 55.319 X 86.430 100 47.812 new gold mohurs . These tables , and indeed all that are inserted in the ...
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... pure metal con- tained in the parallel denominations of coins is equal . 2nd , the commer- cial par , or that case in which the current value of the coin at each place ( after deducting the seignorage leviable for coinage ) is equal ...
... pure metal con- tained in the parallel denominations of coins is equal . 2nd , the commer- cial par , or that case in which the current value of the coin at each place ( after deducting the seignorage leviable for coinage ) is equal ...
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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.