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tion of the question might not prove unfruitful, and with this 

 object I studied in the original Persian every word of Nizamu- 

 d-din in his long account of the first thirty-eight years of 

 Akbar's reign, and the second and third volumes of Badaoni's 

 Muntakhab-ut-T awarikh which are devoted to the same subject. 

 The results of these studies I beg to be permitted to lay before 

 the readers of this journal, as they have a bearing not merely 

 on the question of Mughal Revenues, in which both Thomas 

 and Lane Poole were primarily interested, but on a point of 

 some importance in Mughal Numismatics, namely the date of 

 the first issue of the heavy and still by no means common 

 " Tanka-i-Akbarshahi" of which but one specimen appears to 

 have been known to Thomas, when he wrote in 1871. (Chron- 

 icles, p. 369 note). 



In the first place then, I find that neither Nizamu-d-din 

 nor Badaoni makes use of the word dam. Lowe has on p. 284 

 of his translation the phrase, " Several krors of dims," but a 

 reference to the original (Bibl. Ind. Text, II, p. 276) shows that 

 the word dam is there conspicuous by its absence. Both these 

 writers uniformly employ the word tanka on every occasion. 

 That word, without any qualifying epithet, occurs in Nizamu- 

 d-din in the following passages : 



i. Seven lakhs of tankas given to Sayyad Beg, nephew of 



Shah Tahmasp. Regnal year VII. Lucknow Litho- 

 graph ,"1292 a.h., p. 257. Elliot and Dowson, V, 276. 



ii. Three crores of tankas : the cost of building the fort- 

 ress of Agra. R.Y. X. Luck. Lith., p. 265. E.D., 

 p. 295. 

 iii. Two lakhs of tankas presented to Khwajah Husain for 



a Qasidah. R.Y. XIV. Luck. Lith., p. 288 (not in 



E.D.). 



iv. Jaglr of fifty lakhs of tankas given to Muhibb ' Ali Khan. 



R.Y. XV. Luck. Lith., p. 291. E.D., p. 338. 



v. Jaglr of [two crores and] fifty lakhs of tankas given to 



Muzaffar Gujarat!. R.Y. XVII. Luck. Lith., p. 300. 

 E.D.,p. 353. 

 vi. Kroris appointed in charge of as much land as would 



yield a kror of tankas. R.Y. XIX. Luck. Lith., 

 p. 323. E.D., p. 383. 

 vii. Grain rose to 120 tankas for man in Gujarat. R.Y. 



XIX. Luck. Lith., p. 323. E.D., p. 384. 



viii. Reservoir called Anup talao, filled with gold, silver 



and copper coins amounting to twenty crores of 

 tankas. R.Y. XXIV. Luck. Lith., p. 341. E.D., 

 p. 409. 

 ix. Two crores of tankas given as Mahr or Dower to the 



daughter of Raja Bhagwandas on her marriage. 

 R.Y. XXX. Luck. Lith., p. 366 (not in E.D.). * 



