Ok, first the gold, coins & metalware. 1 candy = 20 maunds of 25 lbs each 1 hun = a gold coin worth Rs 5 thenpic.twitter.com/GEXIHrN8lt
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Ok, first the gold, coins & metalware. 1 candy = 20 maunds of 25 lbs each 1 hun = a gold coin worth Rs 5 thenpic.twitter.com/GEXIHrN8lt
Clearly a huge treasury of hun distributed across all his forts!
Coming to Dupattas, Mungipatans, silk cloths, shawls, waist bands, brocades the number runs into lakhs! White paperpic.twitter.com/5Xt59Yn6bX
was also clearly very valuable & 32000 quirks were accounted for. (Probably imported from the Portuguese?)
Other types of expensive paper like - paper sprinkled with gold dust, Daulatabadi paper etc too r mentionedpic.twitter.com/p22tHuCfyj
Coming to spices & similar stuff: cloves, pepper, saffron, perfumes, sandal, camphor, Aloe, Gulal, rakta chandan,pic.twitter.com/lau0dSxKWn
snuff,poppy seeds,walnuts, almonds, dates,raisins, turmeric,scented oils were all well stocked but not extravagantlypic.twitter.com/fEozY4pc9P
Passing over the precious stones like diamonds, rubies, pearls, sapphire, opal, let's get to the foodstuffspic.twitter.com/6qDFRKsGP4
Moong was abundantly stocked; Arhar & Masur too were fairly well stocked. Ghee, Hing & Mustard oil were plentifulpic.twitter.com/k91uVRogcf
Jeera & Ajwain, Til were used as were garlic & onion. Various types of rice like Raibhog rice were stocked uppic.twitter.com/4rVu2iYf0l
I'm guessing paper was very expensive/valuable back then.
Yeah, probably because it had to be bought from the Portuguese at the price they dictated
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