Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s2.t2.29

c6.s2.t2.29

² Compare, for instance, Frampton, 135; Major, 22, where Nicolo Conti mentions that the merchants between ‘Indo and Gange’ were so rich that one of them owned forty ships which he employed for the shipment of his own goods. All of them were estimated to be worth 50,000 ducats (gold pieces) each., Compare Jain, 10, for another instance of two bankers of the Jain community who built the finest Jain temple of Dilwara on Mount Abu at their own expense in the 12th century. According to Jain, the undertaking must have cost them ‘an enormous sum of money.’