A lakhof men beaten by five hundred--and Sikhs among them!
I'll thank you for that lakh as soon as convenient.
Joora Naig and Khudeek Bunwaree gavest one lakh and sixty thousand rupees in their need, we beseech thee in like manner to aid us, and fulfil our desires!
You have offered a lakh of rupees; do you think the noble Cheetoo will be satisfied with this?
In fact, Brij Lall had accused him of making away with some of the revenue: for Jeysookhdas was the channel of payment not only of the revenue of our village, but of those around us, amounting in the year to nearly a lakh of rupees.
Sahib, you will hardly believe it when I tell you, that the whole amounted to very nearly a lakh of rupees.
He was a covetous man, and of a black heart, and he desired that lakh of rupees for himself.
Then he heard the Gods walking in the temple in the darkness of the columns, and Shiv called to his son Ganesh, saying, "Son, what hast thou done in regard to the lakh of rupees for the mendicant?
Then that great elephant-headed One awoke in the dark and answered, "In three days, if it be thy will, he shall have one lakh of rupees.
They said there was a girl in the case, some girl who wouldn't have him, and that took the savour even out of the lakh of rupees.
You see there was so little to be done," the lakh responded in a very pleasant voice, which at once secured Lady O'Gara's liking.
I wonder if there was anything in Terry's story about the lakh of rupees!
By the way, Evelyn has discovered that the man who got the lakh of rupees,--you remember?
A lakhis a hundred thousand, and a krore ten million.
The headquarters of the caste are in the United Provinces, which contains more than a lakh of Dhanuks.
The Bhishtis are, however, a regular caste numbering over a lakh of persons in India, the bulk of whom belong to the United Provinces.
A living bard, Mahamahopadhyaya Murar Das, has received three Lakh Pasarus from the Rajas of Jodhpur and has refused one from the Rana of Udaipur in view of the fact that he was made ayachaka by the Jodhpur Raja.
This present of a lakh of rupees is known as Lakh Pasaru, and it is not usually given in cash but in kind.
A lakh of rupees [291] was given to the chief bard, and this became a precedent for similar occasions.
A lakh is a hundred thousand, and a crore is a hundred lakhs, or ten millions.
Recollect Calcutta isn't one of your poky up-country cities of a lakh and a half of people.
The people will assemble at the Dussera, and the King can then have his choice between a lakh of Mahrattas and a lakh of Moghuls, or both combined; and yet this old family should not pass away--it should not pass away at our hands.
The King might give any money--a lakh of rupees--for them.
One hour such as thou hast passed now, with thine own heart to speak to thee, is worth more to the cause than a thousand priests or a lakh of swordsmen.
Inside the fish there is a bumble bee, inside the bee a tiny box, and in the box is the nine-lakh necklace.
Inside the fish there is a bumble bee, inside the bee a tiny box, and inside the box is the wonderful nine-lakh necklace.
Hearing this, the King bade the boy ask his mother what made her die, and the next day the boy replied, 'My mother says it is the nine-lakh necklace your Queen wears.
Determined to poison the boy, and seeing no other way of inducing him to eat the sweetmeats, the sorceress-queen slipped off the nine-lakh necklace, and gave it to the child.
Then she told him she had set her heart on procuring the wonderful nine-lakh necklace.
The amount of treasure I take to Candahar will not exceed four lakhs, and about one-third of a lakh of musket ammunition; we have not carriage or protection for more at a time.
A lakh is the utmost that I shall be able to raise from the Candahar merchants, and with the most rigid economy this will hardly last us to the end of March—the godowns at the same time being opened to supply the troops.
If I could sell everything that I possess, I should not be able to raise a lakh of rupees.
On the 17th of June, Mohun Lal reported that the Sirdar had received a lakh and a half of rupees from the royal treasury.
You can promise one lakh of rupees to Khan Shereen on the condition of his killing and seizing the rebels and arming all the Sheeahs, and immediately attacking all rebels.
Macnaghten had offered a lakh of rupees for his head.
We advanced him a lakhof rupees, and allowed him to continue most at Caubul, while we withdrew all our troops.
If there is any difficulty about the Sikhs getting through the pass, Mackeson should offer a bribe to the Khyburees of a lakh of rupees, or more, to send them safe passage.
In case Shah Soojah should wish to remain at Caubul, we will give him yearly a subsistence of a lakh of rupees.
Shah Soojah-ool-Moolk will be allowed either to remain in Afghanistan on a suitable provision for his maintenance, not being under one lakh of rupees per annum, or to accompany the British troops on their return to India.
A lakh of rupees advanced to Mahomed Akbar for the purchase of camels—not one as yet forthcoming.
The Affghans tell two tales: one, that Shah Shoojah had bribed a man with a lakh of rupees to assassinate Akbar; the other, that Capt.
The Nazir says it was only a feeler, and it was a lakh and half each that Mahommed Shah Khan required from us.
The Rajah of Jyneghur offered him a lakh of rupees a day as soon as the grand army should enter his district.
The same blood flowed in our veins, and we ordered one lakh of rupees to be paid him yearly from the tribute of Sindh, and conferred on him the government of Herat.
If 1000 rupees be required,” said the Shah, “these persons will ask a pledge in property of a lakh of rupees.
He had toiled for four long years; he had wasted his time and wasted his money only to be told at last, by an officious secretary, that he owed the British-Indian Government a lakh and seven thousand rupees.
The Shah himself, though robbed of all his jewels, had a lakh of rupees remaining at Lahore, but as soon as he began to possess himself of it, the Maharajah stretched out his hand, and swept it into his own treasury.
It is a common custom among pious Hindus to feed fish at sacred places with a lakh or more of little balls of flour wrapped up in Bhojpatra or birch bark or paper with the name of Rama written upon it.
In the story of the Princess Aubergine we read that "inside the fish there is a bumble-bee, inside the bee a tiny box, and inside the box is the wonderful nine lakh necklace.
Some years ago, one of the Gaekwars of Baroda spent a large sum in marrying some favourite pigeons, and a Raja of Nadiya spent a lakh of rupees in marrying two monkeys.
The Naulakha or nine lakh necklace constantly appears in Indian folk-lore.
The usurer hung round the temple, anxious to see how Ganesha would bestow the lakh of rupees on the beggar-man.
The beggar went back and the bargain began again, and was finally closed at half a lakh of rupees, which were duly brought to the wondering mendicant.
Go back and don't give over bargaining even if you go as high as half a lakh of rupees.
Very good; I will see that he has a lakh of rupees within the next three days.
His eldest son told the writer that his father concealed in a wall of one of the rooms of his house Bank notes for upwards of a Lakh of Rupees.
Nearly a hundred and fifty years ago, Raja Ramkrishna erected a temple at Burranagore, about six miles north of Calcutta, in honor of this goddess, and spent upwards of a lakh of Rupees when it was first consecrated.
So great was the mania for extravagant, ostentations show, that instances were not wanting in which a lakh of Rupees was freely spent on this grand occasion.
A Rajpoot prince was said to have given a lakh of Rupees to a bard in order to purchase his rhythmic plaudits in a respectable assemblage of his countrymen.
There is a trite saying among the Hindoos, that "a matrimonial alliance could not be completed without uttering a lakh of words.
Four sets of gold and sixty-four sets of silver utensils described before, amounting in value to near a lakh of Rupees, were given on the occasion.
The amount in each instance far exceeded a lakh of Rupees.
It is on such occasions that splendid dowries are settled on some children in grants of land or of Government securities, and I have known instances in which a dowry amounted to a lakh of Rupees.
After which Mr Bhosh honourably restored thelakh to the accommodating Scotch minus the interest, which he found it inconvenient to pay just then.
My daughter," he said haughtily, "is to have a lakh of rupees on her nuptials.
Unless you can show me your lakh of rupees, you cannot become my beloved son-in-law.
The number of Englishmen in this country is not above one lakh and a half, and what is the number of English officials in each district?
From his former estates, acquired in the Mahratta service, which he still retained, he derived nearly a lakh and a half more.
That if the produce of the revenue of the assigned territory should hereafter admit of it, the monthly sum to be advanced to his Majesty for his private expenses might be increased to one lakh of rupees.
He received a stipend of one lakh a year, and was nominated Governor of Kora, where he occupied himself in the suppression of banditti, and in the establishment of the Imperial authority.
The result of the capitulation was that the eldest son of the deceased Afrasyab received an estate, yielding a yearly revenue of a lakh and a half of rupees.
He and his servant killed a man who had jewels and other articles laden on a mule to the value of more than a lakh and a half.
The Mughal Emperors, Colonel Tod remarks, were indebted for half their conquests to the Lakh Tulwar Rahtoran, the hundred thousand swords which the Rathors boasted that they could muster.
I became surprised and, when the facts were known, I offered one lakh of cows for the return of the mistaken cow.
Rukmin then laid the wager at one lakhof gold coins.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lakh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grand; kilo; kilometer; millennium; myriad; number; thousand; yard
