334 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1906, 
The code described above is known to horse-dealers through- 
out the Panjab, and probably throughout India. 
Amongst jewellers, cloth merchants, and perhaps other trades, 
there are variations in the code. mongst them also, a sin 
finger signifies a unit of one, ten, a hundred, or a thousand rupees. 
If the unit be one rupee, the words “ Yih rupiya hai” are said as 
the finger or fingers are grasped: if the unit be ten, “‘daha,i”!; 
if a hundred, “sau”: if a thousand, “hazdr.” Half a unit is 
expressed by extending a forefinger along the palm of the other 
erson’s hand: thus to indicate Rs. 15 the dealer would first 
express Rs. 10 by grasping one forefinger and exclaiming 
‘‘daha,i,” and then would either extend his forefinger along the 
other’s palm to indicate half or Rs. 5, or else grasp all five 
D, C, PHILLOTT. 
—-9——_—_. 
5. The Meaning and Origin of the Phrase “ Nuri Muhammad” 
among the Malays of the Patani States. 
he possessive follows any other case without inflection 
fe particle, Nuri Muhammad appears at first sight to be straight- 
orward Malay ; but the conception which the phrase expresses 
—wesietaeies a ae 
' Valgarly corrupted into dhé,i (2/4). 
