A History of the Mahrattas v1.c13.73

v1.c13.73

These assignments were estimated at five lacks of pagodas, being a fourth and a tenth of the revenue, termed by him the *Chouth* and *Surdeshmookhee*,² of certain districts above the Ghauts; the charge of collecting which he took upon himself. So eager was Sivajee to obtain the imperial authority for this arrangement, that he offered, on condition of its being granted, to pay a peshkush of forty lacks of pagodas by instalments of three lacks annually, and to maintain an additional body of troops.³