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 dabbu, which are the ordinary names for a three-pie piece. The value of a cowry, punjam and toli are not absolutely constant, but vary slightly with the market price of cowries. The dabbu is also a term of varying application. In Pithápuram, Tuni, and the Agency it means four pies, and is synonymous with a páta dabbu ('old dabbu'). In this case an égáni means two pies and a dammidi one pie; but the káni and the kotta dabbu ('new dabbu') still denote three pies.

For sums above an anna a variety of curious terms are used. Thus,

In Tuni, and perhaps elsewhere, the dúlam (4 annas), chavulam (8 annas), pávu (rupee), máda (2 rupees) and punji, or pagoda of 4 rupees, are used to denote percentages. Thus if a man wants to say he is giving 6¼, 12½, 25 or 50 per cent, he will say he is giving a dulam (one-sixteenth of a pagoda), chavulam (one-eighth), a pávu (one-quarter) or a máda (one-half) respectively. No doubt the use of the pagoda as a unit of reference is the cause of the name pávu for a rupee, the word literally meaning 'a quarter.'

In Bhadráchalam, besides the usual British Indian coins, those of the Nizam's Dominions are also in common use.