. Ceylon : an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions. Natural history. Chap. Y.] MANUFACTURES. 463 corrected; the letters where they occiu: have been shown to be not Shighalese or Sanskrit, but Persian, and the tokens themselves have been proved to be- long to Laristan on the Persian Gulf, from the chief emporium of which, Gam- broon, they were brought to Ceylon in the course of Indian commerce ; chiefly by the Portuguese, who are stated by Van Caedaen to have introduced them in great quantities into Cochi
. Ceylon : an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions. Natural history. Chap. Y.] MANUFACTURES. 463 corrected; the letters where they occiu: have been shown to be not Shighalese or Sanskrit, but Persian, and the tokens themselves have been proved to be- long to Laristan on the Persian Gulf, from the chief emporium of which, Gam- broon, they were brought to Ceylon in the course of Indian commerce ; chiefly by the Portuguese, who are stated by Van Caedaen to have introduced them in great quantities into Cochin and the ports of Malabar.^ There they were circulated so freely that an edict of Pra- krama enumerates the ridi amongst the coins in wliich the taxes were assessed on land.^ In India they are called larins, and money in imita- tion of them, struck by the princes of Bijapur and by Sivaji, the founder of the Mahrattas, was in ckculation in the Dekkan as late as the seventeenth century.^. HOOK ldONE7. * " Les larins sont tout-a-fait com- modes et necessaires dans les ludes, surtout pour aclieter du poi\Te a Cochin, oil Ton en fait grand ;— Voyage mix Incles Ormitales. Am- sterdam, 1710, vol. \\. p. 626. ^ Kock-iuscription at Dambool, 1200. The Rajavali mentions the ridis as in circulation in Ceylon at the period of tlie arrival of the Portugaiese, 1505.—P. 278. ^ Prof. Wilson'si?<'//K//-A-s on Fish- hook 3Ioneij, Numism. Chronic, 1854, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869. London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
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