92 C. J. Rodgej's — Jalian<i'irti Mohnif: and 'Rupees. [May & JuNE, 



heavy niohurs and rupees. It gives ns the key, however, to his early 

 coinage. Perhaps in the Library of the Asiatic Society there is a good 

 manuscript of tlie Tozuk-i-Jahangiri. The passage certainly needs 

 correction. 



II. In the Toznk-i- Jahangiri, Aligarh Edition of 1864, by " Syud 

 Ahmnd," at p. 207, we have the following : — 



Jijj f&is xS.i\^:^ !<l^ ^\ *Si.w {^J} \J^ 





In the Urdu translation of the Tozuk, printed at the Nizfuni Press, 

 Cawnpore, in 1291 H. (1874 A. D.), the first part of this extract is thus 

 translated,— p. 154, &c., ^}j ^ is/^'^ )i^ ^-t *^ '^ |*^=^ tH'° cj^'^ t:,'«^l j^ , 



*' CriJ^*^ LS^-^^ ts^jo*-'^ ^t:>)) )i^ ji('° 



In the Persian we read that the weights of the tankas were to be 

 ten, twenty times the weights of the mohurs or rupees. In the Urdu 

 we I'ead they were to be halves of the same, and the new coins are 

 termed tangas not fanhas. 



Again in the latter part of the Persian we read " u^j'^^?^ '> • 

 this has no meaning. It ought to be (j^^Jlj^ "besides copper." 



I would remark that the tangas were siyah and siifed, the siyah 

 were of billon, and the coins of the Lodis, and of Firoz Shilh Tughlaq 

 were neai-ly all of this kind. The sufed tankas were silver, and this 

 name was given to the coins which were struck by Bfibar and Huma- 

 yun, and their forefathei's. The tangas toere always fractional parts of a 

 rupee: they were never heavy coins, or valuable coins. 



My object in drawing the attention of the members of the Society 

 to this passage, is to obtain various readings of the parts overlined. 

 Thei'C must be manuscripts of the Tozuk-i-Jahaugiri, by the dozen, in 

 different libraries in India. Will members kindly assist in ascertain- 

 ing the true readings. 



