1850.] 



City of Aurungabad. 



IT 



Hire of Car- The hire of a cart with 2 bullocks and driver, is 

 nage - 8 annas a day. Pack bullocks are not procurable. 



The hire of a camel and driver is 12 annas: camels taken in 

 a number, receive but 10 annas. Tattoos are to be hired by 

 the day, but are not procurable unless conditionally employed, 

 agreeing to give 2 annas a day, feeding the tattoo and finding 

 driver. Banghy coolies receive 4 annas a day, and head coolies 

 2 annas. 



Coins, Gold Gold Mohurs are very scarce, and when wanted 

 have to be purchased at from 19 to 21 rupees ; 

 there is a mint but no money has been coined for a long period, 

 excepting a few half and quarter rupees on occasions of festivals; 

 the rupees in general currency are the Ohulnee, Chandore, and 

 Moonhkee (Bombay) rupees ; value of these is always fluctuating; 

 Rupee ^ e P resent ra ^ e °f exchange being fifteen gundahs 



to the Chulnee, 17J gundahs to the Chandore, and 17| 

 to the Moonhkee, or Bombay rupee. 



The copper coins are of two descriptions, a smaller pice called the 

 pice Alumgheeree, and a large pice called the dubboo ; at 



the present rate of exchange, 60 smaller or 30 larger 

 go for a Chulnee rupee. In exchanging money, half 

 Money chang- a pi ce i s charged on each rupee ; cowries are valued 



ers, Cowries. 1 & r ? 



at the rate of 1350 gundahs to a rupee, and in purchas- 

 ing them in the bazar, a profit is made by the money changer, of 6 

 cowries on every pice worth. In former days, the money revenue of 

 the country was all paid in tukkuhs or copper coins, and, as probably 

 was the custom in all India to the south antecedent to A. D. 1500, 

 with many shells and a little gold ; for there are no very old silver 

 coins in the country. 



Weights and s J stem °f weights and measures is most 



Measures. confused and irregular, no attention being paid to 

 any one invariable standard, but adopting just such arrangement 

 as may be agreed upon by purchaser and vender, this irregula- 

 rity is not owing to the non-existence of a standard, but to a 

 preference to their own customs, rather than abiding by any sys- 

 tematic rule. 



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