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"How much is a lakh of rupees?" Eileen asked with breathless interest. "Oh, a big sum somewhere about fifty thousand pounds. The jewels are worth as much. Then came in the Indian Government and the Army Regulations. They ordered Gillespie to return the Rajah's gifts.
"Not personally, but it cost the Bank close upon a quarter of a lakh." Joicey drummed his square-topped fingers on the table. "I can't imagine how he managed to get away." Hartley frowned. "I had all the landing-stages carefully watched, and the plague police warned. He must have gone before the warrant was out, that is, if he has ever left the country at all."
In India money accounts are reckoned by hundreds, thousands, lakhs and crores, instead of hundreds, thousands, and millions, as with us. A hundred thousands make a lakh, and a hundred lakhs, a crore.
A lakh is a hundred thousand, and at par fifteen rupees went to an English sovereign. "Thank you, Your Highness," he said eagerly. The Rajah held up a fat forefinger warningly. "But not until you have married her," he said. Chunerbutty smiled confidently.
The coat must have cost three hundred guineas. How quick Eileen had been about her marriage! And how soon she had begun to spend the lakh! Meanwhile her lips were saying "I am very glad to meet you, Dr. Gillespie. But what a surprise! I did not think Eileen had had time even to get engaged."
"Could Kharvani but appear, could her worshipers but see Kharvani manifest, what would a lakh, two lakhs, a crore of rupees mean to me, the High Priest of her temple? I could give thee anything! The power over all India would be in my hands! Kharvani would but appear and say thus and thus, and thus would it be done!" The Risaldar's hand had risen to his mustache.
There was something about blackberry jam stirred in boiling water for an astringent drink. Anyhow the Rajah pulled through. He's got a constitution like a horse. And as soon as he was well he presented Gillespie with a horse that was the very Kohinoor of horses Gillespie sold him, for a preposterous sum I believe, to Lord Nutwood magnificent jewels and a lakh of rupees."
He was so depressed by his failure that he now treated Renault with the greatest respect, and it was now that he gave him the sum of money a lakh of rupees, then worth £12,500 which he spent on provisions and munitions of war. Renault says: "The Nawab's envoy further gave me to understand that he was, in his heart, enraged with the English, and continued to regard them as his enemies.
The crossing of the Lakh, however, was not accomplished without much difficulty and some danger; for the narrow pathway, leading over rocky, almost perpendicular, cliffs, three to four hundred feet high, had, in places, almost entirely crumbled away.
Pachaiyappa was a rich and religious Hindu, who made his money as a broker in the Company's service, and who died more than a hundred years ago leaving a lakh of pagodas some 3½ lakhs of rupees for temple purposes. The trustees neglected the provisions of the will, whereupon the High Court assumed control of the funds, which under the Court's control rose to the value of nearly Rs. 7½ lakhs.
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