History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c8.153

c8.153

⁷⁴ Ibn Batūṭah, III, p. 426. Ibn Batūṭah writes that the Sultan had ordered the payment of his debts which amounted to 55,000 *dinars* and had bestowed upon him a gift of 12,000 *dinars*. All told, he had to be paid 67,000 *dinars* by which he certainly means the silver *tankahs*. In satisfaction of this claim he received, after the usual deduction of 10 per cent, 6,233 *tankahs*. This establishes a rate of exchange of one to 9.69 of sliver. It is about 1:10. Ibn Batūṭah in this connection uses the words *tankah* and *dinar*. He says he had to pay 67,000 *dinars* but received from the treasury 6,233 *tankahs* and adds further that a *tankah* is equal to 2½ gold *dinars* of west.