The Institutes of Akbar 149: AYN 88. · ON ESTIMATES OF HOUSE BUILDING.

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Stonebuildings. For 12 gaz, one pha (vide above Ain 86) is required; also 75 mans chinah; but if the walls be covered with red stone, 30 mans chinah are required per gaz.
Brickbuildings. For every gaz, there are required 250 bricks of three ser each, 8 mans chinah, and 2 m. 27 s. pounded brick (surkhi).
Claybuildings. 300 bricks are required for the same; each brick-mould contains 1 s. of earth and ½ s. of water.
Astarkari work. For every gaz, 1 man chinah, 10 s. gach, 14 s. surkhi, and ½ s. san (vide p. 224) are required.
Candalakari work. For every gaz, 7 s. of gach, and 3 s. surkhi are required.
Safidkari work. 10 s. of gach are required per gaz.
Gachkari work (white-washing). For walls and ceilings, 10 s. per gaz; for pantries, 6 s.; chimneys, 10 s.
Windows require 2½ s. of lime, 2½ s. of glass, 4 s. of sirish i kahi (putty).
Plaster for walls, for 14 gaz 1 m. of straw, and 20 m. earth; for roofs and floors, do. for 10 gaz. For ceilings, and the inside of walls, do. for 15 gaz.
Lac (varnish work) used for chighs [sliced bamboo sticks, placed horizontally, and joined by strings, with narrow interstices between the sticks. They are painted, and are used as screens]. If red, 4 s. of lac, and 1 s. of vermilion; if yellow, 4 s. of lac, 1 s. of zarnikh (auripigment). If green, ½ s. of indigo is mixed with the lac, and zarnikh is added; if black, 4 s. of lac and 8 s. of indigo.