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of value on these pieces result in an average weight, in copper, of some¬ 
thing over 55 grains. Mr. Rodgers thereupon proceeds to infer that 
as “ the total revenues of Akbar are put down by Nizam-ud-din at 
640,00,00,000 tankes. This at the rate of 200 to the rupee would be 
equal to 3,20,00,000 rupees or £3,200,000.” 
In this instance, also, the argument is founded on a palpable fallacy. 
There were both gold and silver *£3 tanJcahs* which constituted the 
early currency of the Pathans, each of which were of the identical weight 
of 175 grains. But the TdnJc (or dang), as I was careful to point out 
(p. 408, my Pathan Kings), had nothing to do with the Tankah . I was 
also able to determine that the former was the surviving equivalent of the 
Bur ana of Manu, weighing 32 Batis or 56 grains ; in short the u&U 
(Arabic ddng, which Babar himself remarked, was still used, in his 
days, to weigh “ jewels and precious stones,” and which he enters in his 
own Table of weights as equivalent to 32 Batis .f 
* The Persian Historians designate the coins in these two metals as Tankahs. The 
word on the gold pieces is Sikkah in its generic sense. 
f Leyden’s Memoirs of Babar, p. 332, My Pathans, p. 222. 
