Note 275 — Chapter VI
Evelyn Abbott translation
Manu, 7, 126. The Indians learned to coin money from the Greeks after the year 300 B.C.; till that time their coinage consisted of weighed pieces of copper, silver, and gold, with the mark of the weight as a stamp. The pana is a copper weight of this kind; to this day the name denotes copper money in India. The drona is a weight of about 30 pounds. Cf. Lassen, 2, 574.