1844.] and on Gerard's Account of Kundwar, 211 



REVENUES OF PITTI. 



Statistics of a Bhotee Village. — The whole revenue of Pitti is 

 collected in grain, by a measure called khal, equal to eight pakka seers, 

 and of the value of thirteen annas. The revenue is levied upon but 267 

 houses, the total will be 2,937 khals, or in value 2,386 rupees. — 

 Moor croft, II, p. 70-71- 



" Estimated" should perhaps have been used by Mr. Trebeck in- 

 stead of " collected," see also Gerard p. 147. In 1841-42, there were in 

 Pitti about 250 paying houses, and of that number, the revenues of 

 fifty-two or fifty-three were appropriated to the five monasteries of the 

 district, agreeably to an arrangement made by Lassa on the transfer of 

 Pitti to Ladakh, (see Chanthan, history of.) The sum demanded 

 from the 197 or 198 houses was 398 rupees, and about 30 pieces of 

 woollen. This tax is denominated mattal ; besides the above, the Rajah 

 of Ladakh levied from all Pitti a tax named Hortal, and a second 

 mattal, amounting to 36 and 18 rupees respectively. Hortal means the 

 tax of Hor, the country about Yarkand. Mattal means the real or 

 principal or original tax. Mah being the same as mul in Hindee. I 

 am unable to explain the application of the term to the small tax of 

 rupees 18. 



The Rajah of Ladakh further demands a quantity of iron, cotton 

 goods, paper, madder, &c. from the whole of the district, for which he 

 gives 50 rupees, taking however 200 rupees' worth of goods. 



Besides the revenues appropriated to the monasteries, the division of 

 Pitti, called Pin, pays to the Abbot of Teshingang on the Indus, 

 a quantity of grain. The Abbot also sends a quantity of tea to the 

 houses or families of the valley, for which he asks and gets double 

 price. Teshigang belongs to the Chinese. 



This same division Pin, pays to Bissehir, a British dependency, 32 

 pieces of woollen and one sheep ; the sheep and two of the pieces of 

 cloth being the perquisite of the Bissehir authorities sent to collect the 

 tax. 



Kulu, (a Lahore dependency,) demands from the whole of Pitti in- 

 cluding the houses attached to monasteries, one^w ovjao of gold, equal 

 to 8 or 9 rupees, and also 4 pieces of woollen. 



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