مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.129

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Shaykh Mubārak told me: the red lakh is a hundred thousand tankas, and the white lakh a hundred thousand tankas. The gold tanka, which they call the red tanka, is three mithqāls; and the silver (nuqra) tanka, the tanka of silver, is eight hashtkānī dirhams. This hashtkānī dirham is of the weight of the silver (nuqra) dirham current in Egypt and Syria, and their exchange value hardly differs. This hashtkānī dirham equals four sulṭānī dirhams, also called dukānī; and this sulṭānī dirham comes to one third of a shashtkānī dirham, which is a third dirham current in India, its value being one half and a quarter of a shashtkānī dirham. (This sulṭānī dirham has a half called yakānī, which is one kitīl; and they have another dirham called shātrabkānī, worth two dirhams. So the dirhams of India are six: shādhūdkānī, duwāzdahkānī, hashtkānī, shashkānī, sulṭānī, and yakānī, the smallest of them being