[1591.—"Dingoes." See under [RUBLE].]
1592-3.—"At the present time, namely, A.H. 1002, Hindustan contains 3200 towns, and upon each town are dependent 200, 500, 1000, or 1500 villages. The whole yields a revenue of 640 krors (see [CRORE]) murádí tankas."—Ṭabaḳāt-i-Akbarī, in Elliot, v. 186.
1598.—"There is also a kinde of reckoning of money which is called Tangas, not that there is any such coined, but are so named onely in telling, five Tangas is one Pardaw (see [PARDAO]), or [Xeraphin] badde money, for you must understande that in telling they have two kinds of money, good and badde, for foure Tangas good money are as much as five Tangas badde money."—Linschoten, ch. 35; [Hak. Soc. i. 241].
[c. 1610.—"The silver money of Goa is perdos, larins, Tangues, the last named worth 7 sols, 6 deniers a piece."—Pyrard de Laval, Hak. Soc. ii. 69.]
1615.—"Their moneyes in Persia of silver, are the ... the rest of copper, like the Tangas and Pisos (see [PICE]) of India."—Richard Steele, in Purchas, i. 543.
[c. 1630.—"There he expended fifty thousand Crow (see CRORE) of tacks ... sometimes twenty tack make one Roopee."—Sir T. Herbert, ed. 1677, p. 64.]
1673.—"Tango." See under [REAS].
[1638.—"Their (at Surat) ordinary way of accompting is by [lacs], each of which is worth 100,000 ropias (see [RUPEE]), and 100 lacs make a crou, or carroa (see CRORE), and 10 carroas make an Areb. A Theil (see [TOLA], [TAEL]) of silver (? gold) makes 11, 12, or 13 ropias ready money. A massa (māshā) and a half make a Thiel of silver, 10 whereof make a Thiel of gold. They call their brass and copper-money Tacques."—Mandelslo, 107.]
c. 1750-60.—"Throughout Malabar and Goa, they use tangas, vintins, and Pardoo (see PARDAO) xeraphin."—Grose, i. 283. The Goa tanga was worth 60 reis, that of Ormus 6234⁄43 to 6933⁄43 reis.
[1753.—In Khiva "... Tongas, a small piece of copper, of which 1500 are equal to a ducat."—Hanway, i. 351.]