1 8 Travels into the INDIES. Part III. 
CHAP. IX. 
Of the Weights and Money of Surrat. 
The weights 
6f Surrat. 
Candy a mea- 
fure. 
The Man a 
weight at Sur- 
rat. 
The Pound of 
Surrat. 
Tole. Mangela. 
Carats. Vales. 
Gongy. 
The Ounce of 
Paris. 
Thé Money of 
Surrat. 
Roupies of 
Gold. ■ 
Roupies of 
Silver. 
AbaJJÏs. 
Ptihd. 
Badett, 
The Moguls 
Money very 
fine. 
AT Surrat as elfewhere, there are diverfe kinds of Weights arid Mea- 
fures. That which is called Candy ^ is of twenty Mans, but the moft 
common Weight ufed in Trade is the Man, which contains foury Serves or 
Pounds, and the Pound of Surrat contains fourteen Ounces^ or five and thir- 
ty Toks. All Gold and Silver is weighed by the Tole., and the Tole contains 
founy Mangelis^ which makes fifty fix of omCara^s^ or thirty mo Vales ^ 
or otherwife fourfcore and fixteen Gongys. The Vale contains three Gongys^ 
and two Toks a third and a half, anfwers to an Ounce of Taris weight, and 
a Tole weighs as much as a Roupie, The Man weighs fourty Pound weight 
all the Indies over, but thefe Pounds or Serres vary according to different 
Countries : For inftance, the Pounds of Surrat are greater than thofe of 
Golconda^ and by confequence the A/<«w is bigger alfo : The Serre or Pound of 
Surrat weighs no more but fourteen Ounces -, and that of Agra weighs twen- 
ty eight. 
Great fums of Money are reckoned by Leks^ Crouls or Courous^ Padans, 
and Nils. An hundred thoufand Roupies make a Lek, an hundred thoufand 
Leks a CoaroUy an hundred thoufand Courous a Padan, and an hundred thou- 
fand Padans a Nil. The great Lords have Roupies of Gold, which are worth 
about one and twenty French Livres -, but fince they pafs not commonly in 
Trade,and that they are only Coined for the moft part,to be made j)refents 
of, I fhall only fpeak of thofe of Silver. The Silver Roupie is as big is an 
Abajfy of Perfia^ but much thicker, it weighs a Tole -, It paflfes commonly 
for thirty French Sols, but it is not worth above nine and twenty. They 
yearly Coin R^oupies -, and the new ones during the year they are Coined in, 
are valued a Pecha more than thofe of the foregoing year, becaufe the Coin- 
ers pretend that the Silver daily wears : The truth is,when I cameto5«rr<if, 
the Roupies were worth thirty three Pechas and a half, and when I left it, 
the fame were worth but thirty two and a half. They have Roupies and 
quarter pieces alfo. 
The Abafis that are brought from Perfia, pafs only for ninteen Pechai, 
which are about fixteen French Sols and a half. There is alfo a Mogole 
Silver-Coin, called Mahmoudy^ which is worth about eleven Sols and a 
half; 
The Pecha is a piece of Copper-Money as big and thick as a Roupie, it is 
worth fomewhat more than ten French Deniers^ and weighs fix of our 
Drachms. 
They give threefcore and, eight Baden or bitter Almonds for a Pecha. 
Thefe Almonds that pafs for Money at Surrat, come from Perjîa, and are 
the Fruit of a fhrub that grows on the Rocks. There are alfo half Pechas. 
It is to be obferved that the Silver Money of theGre^f Mogul is finer than 
any other , for whenever a Stranger enters the Empire , he is made to 
change the Silver he hath, whether Pidfires or Abaffis, into the Money of 
the Country, and at the fame time they are melted down, and the Silver 
refined for the Coyning of Roupies. 
CHAP. 
