The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 56: Drinking.
Dwázda-Sála-i Jahángírí; Wáki’át Jahángírí, of the Emperor Jahángír (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 56
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The climate of this part of the country was not beneficial to my health, and the physicians had advised me to lessen the quantity of wine I usually drank. I deemed this prudent, and began to do so. In the course of one week I reduced the quantity about one cup. Formerly I took six cups every night, each cup containing seven tolas and a half of liquor, that is. forty-five tolas altogether; but now each cup contained six and one-third of a tola, the whole being thirty-seven tolas and a half.