Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s1.4

v2.c27.s1.4

¹ [The practice of a devotee weighing himself against gold was common in ancient Hindu times, was known as *tulāpurushadāna*, and is still performed by the Mahārāja of Travancore (Thurston, *Tribes and Castes of S. India*, vii. 202 ff.; *BG*, i. Part ii. 415; Forbes, *Rāsmāla*, 84). Akbar used to have himself weighed against precious substances twice a year, on his solar and lunar birthdays, the articles being given to Brāhmans, and Jahāngīr followed the same custom (*Āīn*, i. 266 ff.; Elliot-Dowson v. 307, 453; *Memoirs of Jahāngīr*, trans. Rogers-Beveridge, 78, 81, 111, 183).]