224 List of Cotton Manufactures [April, 



A piece of best Parbattiah chintz b\ yards long, sufficient to make 

 an entire dress for a woman, costs at Kathmandu 1-8-0 Nipalese rupees*. 



The subjoined list of the cotton piece goods manufactured in the 

 valley and neighbouring hills, of which specimens are now presented, 

 may not be useless to the public, while it will tend in some degree to 

 give practical illustration to the above remarks. As a mode of at- 

 tempting to estimate the real value of these products, and to assist in 

 throwing light on the condition of the people who make and use them, 

 the value of money, in regard to the staff of life, may be conveniently 

 recordedf, especially as in Nepal, as well as India, the craftsmar* does 

 not, generally speaking, earn any thing in addition to the common 

 wages of agricultural labour, or in other words, little more than suf- 

 fices to fill his belly, and that of a wife and children, with plain rice, 

 and a few spices, and to buy the raw cotton, for the manufacture of 

 his, and their coarse clothing. Models of the spinning wheel, and 

 cotton cleaning machine, accompany the specimens of cloth. 



List of the principal cotton piece goods Manufactured in Nep&l proper, and 

 throughout the Hills ; to which is added a notice of the Bhungara, or Canvas 

 made from the inner bark of trees, and the few coarse woollens of the neigh- 

 bouring hillsX- 



Names by which „ 7 



known in the Bazar. Kemarlcs. 



1. Changa.—. Manufactured in almost every NewaVs house throughout the valley, 

 and generally in the hills. Is coarse, hard and thin in texture. Is for 

 the most part in webs of 10, 12, to 14 yards long, and 18 inches broad, 

 and ranges in the Kathmandu bazar, from one rupee to 1-4-0 and 1-8-0 per 

 piece. 



» A Nipalese rupee equivalent to 12i annas of Company's currency. 



t A full grown labouring man requires for a day's good food, 1§ mannas of rice, 

 and his wife, with (say as an average) three children, 1| mannas more, or in all 

 three mannas. 



The present price (November 1835) is 26 mannas, or nearly nine days* food 

 per current rupee ; to this, add salt, spices, and other condiments, worth one 

 rupee more, and it will be seen that the wages of labour such as a man can live 

 on in tolerable comfort, must be about four current rupees per month, and this 

 without any allowance fcr clothing, house or luxuries. 



The lowest class of laborers, and artizans, in some parts of the valley, and 

 throughout a great portion of the hills, cannot come at rice, as their ordinary 

 food ; but must be content with the coarser grains, such as murwa, bajra, kodu 

 and Indian corn. Two current rupees per month suffice for their subsistence, 

 and is about the price of their labour. 



X The specimens here described are deposited in the Society's museum. 



