Remonstrantie 6.2.6

6.2.6

All weights and measures in use here are two-fold, Akbari and Jahangiri, for the present King has raised weights, measures, and coins 20 per cent, above his father's standards. Thus an Akbari ser weighs 30 pice, or lb., and the Jahangiri ser is 36 pice, or lb.; the former maund is 50, and the latter, 60 lb. The gaz [Indian yard] varies in the same way ; 100 Akbari gaz make 120 of our ells, the other in proportion. The coins used are rupees, but there are different kinds, viz. khazana [treasury] or Akbar's old coins, and chalani [current], which are the rupees struck during Jahangir's reign in Agra, Lahore, Patna, Kandahar, or Gujarat; the shroffs [money-dealers] value the chalani rupee at from 1 to 2 per cent, above the khazana, though the coins are identical in weight. Then there are the siwai, which are equivalent to 1¼ rupees; and the Jahangiri, which weigh 20 per cent, more than the khazana. All bargains are done in terms of the same series of units, either Akbari or Jahangiri. No goods are sold by measure as we sell grain, etc., but everything is weighed by the maund.