Punjab Government Records Vol.vi

· 1915 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

1DIASmS OF MB P SJ.NFTS MFLVJLL, 1S17 221

2I£al Stnffhaia

31. Tlio stngltara is n dcBcription o£ edible water root, aud is

4found in great quantities in tbe Widur Lake.

52 Lcuig an article of considerable consumption among the people,

6it IS also a source of rc\cnuo to tbc Sirkar,

78 . It IS of Ino dcscuplions, viz., tbc snlzginsce, collcotcd iii

8October, and tbc komatc, collected from November to ]\ray.

94. The Sirkar has a number of men employed to collect the

10stiighara at the propci season of the year, and besides these, there

11aio three stllahs built on the margin of the lake whose inhabitants

12am specially devoted to the same labour They arc called Rudoogam,

13Nougam and Soodrookoot.

145 The revenue assessments are different, having been detoi mined

15b^' i>cculiar circumstances, in each village, but only in quantity The

16following details of one of tho Milages nill, therefore, serve ns a

17sample of tho n hole,

186 . ZtUah Rudoogam — each zumeendar is bound to collect 100

19Ihttrtoars of stnghara annually for tho Sirkar, to bo gnen in tlio

20proportions of 25 Ihnrwars of snhcgmsec and 75 Ihtnoars of f.on<ut ,

21of tho snlzgtnscc I is to be of vntgJis (having tho cxtcrml coating

22peeled ofiQ, and of tho koviate 5 iruks 2 ^ seers per kkvrr r are taken

23111 mugkz. There arc besides various ahoahs, viz —

24Itussoom-t-prisce — 2 ^ vmnioitUa on c\crj' / 'tr "r, of nhich 1

257111111 goes to puhoanco, ^ mun to fi n i to

26Ihzana, i innn to sun suildce.

27KnJiclce to tho amount of Re l-‘’*2, of whicli Re 1 1 “= ^

28taken for ruwidat, 4 annas for di a , - aniiac for zrrrab

29lltana, 2 annas diiftnrec, 1 anna £ p O' r- d-t~goon(

307 Moltgah is taken from each indiv ideal at the rate of 1 /L rnr

314 truks, at a ncrnlh of Re. 1-2-0.

328 Tho Sirkar remits 10 the (ribufo ^

33k/iunoars per dteiii, so that the realaai'ea i': oah 00 J 7 1 r'cin

349 The average collcclm of c~: man in the 3 ear is 185 / ”