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" be current in the Deccan, the Sultan was enraged ; and when they 

 " persisted in the offence in spite of his remonstrances, he put all 

 " the guilty to death, and restrained the business of exchange to 

 " some Kutteries. descendants of Dhellians, who had migrated to 

 " Deccan. After this, the Bhamenee coins alone were current in 

 " the Mahommedan dominions, but since the cessation of that dy- 

 " nasty, the coins of the Hindoo princes have been allowed also to 

 " pass universally. 



Again at page 23, describing the throne Firozeh of Sultan Mah- 

 1357 A. D. mood Bhamenee who reigned in 1357, he says, 

 the jewellers valued it at a crore of oons which the Translator 

 at p. 169 explains as being "those coins called pagodas by Euro- 

 " peans, a lac of which make somewhat above £40,000," in which 

 case the pagoda is estimated at more than 3J rupees, the com- 

 mon value assigned to it. Also at page 87, describing Firoze Shaw 

 with his bride going to the camp of his father-in-law, he says, 

 " The two princes rode on horseback together, between ranks of 

 1407 A D " ^ eau ^ u ^ k°y s an d giri^ wno waved plates of gold 

 " and silver flowers over their heads as they advanc- 

 " ed, and then threw them to be gathered by the populace. Silver 

 " flowers being small coins stamped with the figure of a flower 

 " and still used in India to distribute in charity, and on occasions 

 " thrown by the servants of the great among the populace." 



At page 1 75, Cowries are mentioned as well as another money 

 called Laares, " Mohammed Shaw having heard frequent reports of 



1481 AD " ^ G VaS ^ wea ^k °^ R a J a k Jehaun, sent for his trea- 

 " surer. The treasurer said, oh ! Sultan, my Lord had 

 " two treasuries one of which he called the Sultan's — in this there 

 " are now 10,000 laares and 3,000 oons — the other he named the 

 " treasury of the poor, in this there is a sealed bag containing 

 " 3,000 laares. Whenever money come from his Jaghire, having 

 " taken from the king's treasury the pay of his troops and stables, 

 " he gave the remainder to the poor, not reserving a cowrie for his 

 " own use. 



In Baber's Memoirs written by himself, and translated by Mr. 



