[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.761 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.761 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.761 - **Language:** English ### [c10.761](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.761) 1516.—“It (Malacca) has got such a quantity of gold, that the great merchants do not estimate their property, nor reckon otherwise than by \*bahars\* of gold, which are 4 quintals to each \*bahar\*.”—\*Barbosa\*, 193. - [Previous: c10.760](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.760) - [Next: c10.762](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.762) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.761](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.761) · Pramāṇa