Administrative System of the Marathas c13.11

c13.11

The word Kabri, I believe, is a misreading of Lari, a silver coin current in the coast towns of Persia and Western India. Gerson da Canha dealt with the origin of Lari in a learned article contributed to the *Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.* The Portuguese called it "tanga larim" and Emerson Tennent says that money in imitation of them, struck by the princes of Bijapur and by Sivaji, the founder of the Mahrattas, was in circulation in the Dekkan as late as the seventeenth century (Ceylon, Vol. I, p. 463). According to Dalgado (Glossario, Vol. I, p. 513) its value varied from sixty to hundred reis (or pies). In Sabhasad's list we read of Laris of Dabhol, Chaul and Bussora.