Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c19.s2.t1.78
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c19.s2.t1.78
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⁷ That is an Arab dirham and a half. Al Istakhri in Elliot (History of India), I. 27. These Tartariyya dirhams are mentioned by almost all Arab writers. Al Idrisi says they were current in Mansûrah in Sindh and in the Malay archipelago. See Elliot, I. 3 note 4. According to Sulaiman (A.C. 851) the Tartar ya dirham weighed "a dirham and a half of the coinage of the king." Elliot, I. 3. Al Masûdi (Prairies D'Or, I. 382) calls these "Tâtiriyyah" dirhams, giving them the same weight as that given by Sulaiman to the Tartariyah dirhams. Ibni Haukal calls it the Titari dirham and makes its weight equal to "a dirham and a third" (Elliot, I. 85).