Storia do Mogor 212.4

212.4

19. The province of Nande [Nander ?] yields seventy-two lakhs ... 0 72 00,000 20. The province of Dhakkah or Bengal yields four karors 4 00 00,000 21. The province of Ujjain yields two karors 2 00 00,000 22. The province of Rajmahal yields one karor and fifty thousand rupees 1 00 50,000 Karors. Lakhs. Rupees. 23. The kingdom of Bijapur, with the Karnatik, yields six karors... 5 00 00,000 24. The kingdom of Gulkandah, with another portion of the Karnatik, yields five karors ... 5 00 00,000 38 71 94,000 [51] Although the Mogul asserts himself to be ruler over fifty-four provinces, I do not name them all, because they are for the most part in these days subdivisions of the provinces that I have just enumerated. To understand the revenues of which I have just given the figures, it should be known that a karor is one hundred lakhs, or ten millions, and that a lakh is one hundred thousand rupees. When summed up the whole comes to three hundred and eighty-seven millions one hundred and ninety-four thousand rupees, or in French money at thirty sols to the rupee, five hundred and eighty millions seven hundred and ninety-one thousand livres.