Twilight of the Sultanate c7.s4.31

c7.s4.31

¹⁶² *Z.N.*, II, has صد هزار درست زر هر يك بوزن دو مثقال و نيم which means 100,000 durusts of gold, each weighing two and a half Misqāls. So have R.S., VI, 116 and Ferishta, II, 340. Taking a Misqāl at the average weight of 70 to 72 grains, the *durust* (correct weight) *tanka* of gold will be of 175 to 180 grains. Ferishta is therefore quite correct when he says that the amount demanded was 100,000 Ashrafis of 'Alāuddīn, because the *tanka* of 'Alāuddīn (clearly referred to in the *Malfuzāt*, E and D, III, 470) was of 175 grains or two and a half Misqāls. For 'Alāuddīn's *tanka* see Thomas, *Chronicles*, 158, 160-61; Nelson Wright, 72 and Lal, *History of the Khaljīs*, 270-71. In view of this the 'one hundred thousand golden dirhams' of C.H.I., III, 279, are not correct.