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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Note 1695 — SECTION III. HINDŪSTĀN

Annette Susannah Beveridge translation

320 ratīs (Erskine). The ratī is 2.171 Troy grains, or in picturesque primitive equivalents, is 8 grains of rice, or 64 mustard seeds, or 512 poppy-seeds,—uncertain weights which Akbar fixed in cat’s-eye stones.

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