64. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIII , 



the Diwan [to the effect] that the weight of the Dam was [now] 

 fixed at 14 Mashas, that pieces of that weight should be coined 

 and circulated, and that one year's revenue of the mint was 

 not to be accounted for (lit excused, foregone).' ' 



The second passage is as follows : 



JU &» JjU ^jli ^jL J*)}*}* *£ JU <U^ )jSLA AiU »^;l^ ggjj 



(Jf»ra«, Part I, p. 282, II. 4-11). 



" The Mutasaddis (officials) in charge of the garden-houses 

 and other Karkhanas [public establishment | of the city of 

 Ahmadabad represented to the celestial court that the wages of 

 day-labourers and others had been formerly paid in a FalQ* 

 weighing 21 Mashas ; but the circulation of the said Fains had 

 been suspended (lit. laid aside) since the beginning of the month 

 of Shawwal of the aforesaid year [1076 a.h.], and a [nother] 

 Falus of the auspicious 'Alamgiti stamp, of which the weight 

 had been fixed at 14 Mashas, had become current ; that the day- 

 labourers refused to accept the present coins in lieu of the old 

 (lit former) Falus, and said that the one differed from the 

 other as ten [differs] from fifteen. When this fact reached the 

 August Presence, the Diwan of the Subah received orders to 

 the effect that in the payment of daily wages, the value of the 

 lanka m Falus should be raised in the proportion of ten to 

 hfteen. From that time, the Tanka has been fixed in Gujarat 

 at three Falus.' * ' 



reason gone up considerably at this time, that the merchants, 

 as well as the state, had ceased to get copper money coined on 

 account of the little or no profit left to either by the rise in the 

 cost of the metal and that the deficiency of the chief circulat- 

 ing medium of the poorer classes was productive of great 

 inconvenience. It must be borne in mind that the Mughal 

 system was a system of free coinage in all the metals. In other 

 words, any private individual had the right of bringing bullion 

 to the mint m any quantities, and have it coined on defraying 



