[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of the Qaraunah Turks in India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936) › c8.153 # History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c8.153 History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c8.153 - **Language:** English ### [c8.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.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. - [Previous: c8.152](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c8.152) - [Next: c8.154](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c8.154) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c8) ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c8.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c8.153) · Pramāṇa