ON THE STATISTICS OF DUKHUN. ~ 311 
_ With respect to the denominations under which land is as- 
sessed in the comparatively limited space of my inquiries, their 
variety and absurdity demonstrate a wanton bizarreness that 
could scarcely have been looked for in a people reputedly sim- 
ple and uniform in their opinions and economy, ‘The assess- 
ment on a beegah is definite as it depended on positive mea-~ 
surement, and I have remarked that it obtains at, and in the 
neighbourhood of the established seats of Moosulman author- 
ity, as at Ahmednuggur, Purunda, Sholapoor, Mohol, Bar- 
lonee, Wamoree, Tiacklee, &c. The Chahoor and Rookeh, as 
at Alkootee, Kheir, Wangee, Taimbournee, Kurkumb, Angur, 
Mahreh, Kurmalleh, Kurjut and Meerujgaon, being multiples 
of the beegah, are intelligible. ven the Doree or rope, used 
at Hungawarreh and Neembee, as it implies measurement and 
superficial extent, is admissible. The old Hindoo terms, 
Kundhee and Mun, at Ranjungaon, Jamgaon, Parnair, &c. &c. 
as they are founded on positive properties, furnish sufficiently 
precise ideas. But the Tukeh, with its constituents. of Suj- 
gunnees and Piceh, (copper coin,) at Dytna and Ankolner, 
the Seer of weight and its Nowtanks or 3 Seer, as at Koorul and 
Wangee, and the Pyhnee and its Annas® at Serrolee, Bruhmun- 
warreh and Muhr, are not reducible by any operation of the 
mind to an appreciable portion of land, whose produce shall 
admit of the government share on it being equitably assessed. 
The assessment by the hatchet, rude as it is, still involves the 
idea of as much copse-wood land as one hatchet can clear, and 
one man can sow and reap in the year. To add to the confusion, 
similar denominations of land are not made up of common and 
uniform constituents. The Tukkeh at Kothoul is raised from 
the Rookeh, each of which is supposed to contain 10 beegahs, 
or 73 acres. At Ankolner the Tukkeh is composed of Suj- 
- gunnees, Piceh and Rookeh ; the Rookeh being equal only to 23 
_ beegahs, or 1$ acres. At Lakungaon there are 10 Tukkeh to 
one Pyhnee, and as the Pyhnee is said to contain 30 beegahs, 
_ the Tukkeh here contains only 3 beegahs instead of 480, as at 
_ Tellegaon; or 240, as at Ashtee. 
In respect to the Mun at Ranjungaon, it is rated at 10 
beegahs ; at Jamgaon, belonging to Seendeh, it is not reducible 
. - into beegahs at all; at Parnair 64 beegahs only are equal to 
the Mun. The Pyhnee at Seerolee has the Chahoor of 120 
_ beegahs as a typical standard, 4 Pyhnees being equal to one 
_ Chahoor, or 120 beegahs ; at Muhr the Pyhnee of 30 beegahs is 
considered as identical with the Kundhee of 20 Muns, reducing 
_ the Mun therefore to 13 beegahs. 
® One-sixteenth of a rupee. 
