[Footnote *: Ferishta says, some "crores of gold." Dow says,
in a note at the bottom of the page, "ten millions," which
is the explanation of the word "crore." Mr. Gibbon says
rashly that the sum offered by the Brahmins was ten millions
sterling. Note to Mill's India, vol. ii. p. 222. Col.
Briggs's translation is "a quantity of gold."
The treasure found in the temple, "perhaps in the image,"
according to Major Price's authorities, was twenty millions
of dinars of gold, above nine millions sterling; but this
was a hundred-fold the ransom offered by the Brahmins.
Price, vol. ii. p. 290. - M.]
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