Chapter concerning Tormapatani, a city of India; and concerning Pandarani, a place one day distant; and concerning Capogatto, a similar district

Tormapatani1 is distant from Canonor twelve miles, and the lord of it is a Pagan. The land is not very rich, and is affords but scanty assistance relative to the old Hindu coinage o f the Carnatic.

It deserves to be noticed that neither ’Abd er-Razz&k nor Yarthema mentions the Cowrie as forming part o f the currency. Ibn Bat&ta speci­ fies it under the Arabic name o f Wada’, remarks that it was collected in the Maldive Islands where it passed for money, and was sent in large quantities to Bengal, where it was also current instead of coin. L e e ’ s Translation, p. 178.