[501]. London, 1631, p. 1297.
[502]. Tavernier, “Travels in India,” London, 1889, Vol. II, p. 130.
[503]. Tavernier used the Florentine carat, which equaled 3.04 grains troy.
[504]. Tavernier, “Travels in India,” London, 1889, Vol. II, p. 110.
[505]. One rati equaled seven eighths of the Florentine carat, or 2.66 grains troy.
[506]. Tavernier, “Travels in India,” London, 1889, Vol. I, pp. 397–399.
[507]. Sir Henry Miers Elliot, “The Mohammedan Period as described by Its Own Historians,” Vol. V. of “The History of India,” ed. by A. V. W. Jackson, New York, 1907, p. 324.
[508]. See Fig. 2 of Tavernier’s diagram.
[509]. Tavernier, “Travels in India,” trans. by V. Ball, London, 1889, Vol. II, p. 384.
[510]. Benjamin, “Persia,” p. 73.