You may have lakhs of treasure in your house, but you must leave it all and go.
We'll try and find out something about the Rajah--in fact it's our interest to do so, having an eye to those lakhs of rupees.
Tell the Nawab I offer him all I have in the world, five lakhs of rupees, in redemption of this life.
You'll have some of his following finding you out directly, with no end of lakhs of rupees, as a slight mark of gratitude, and all that sort of thing.
Here, too, he is a money-lender, and at the Residency they say that the Hyderabad Government owes him thirty lakhs of rupees.
This he plundered, thereby becoming possessed of about four lakhs of rupees, which he employed in raising troops.
At last five lakhs of rupees were raised, wherewith to commence the religious war.
Of course police stole lakhs of rupees worth of clothes and furniture and said it was infected.
The dog howled--like a dog--and offered lakhs of rupees.
This was done in the hope that he or some one of his fellow-captives would reveal the hiding-place of a phantom "four lakhs of rupees," which the Afghans declared the British had buried in the vicinity.
And suppose I assured you personally two lakhs of rupees for the service, and through you all arrears of pay to your party, would that suffice?
In addition, from ten to twelve lakhs of rupees worth of timber are floated down the river.
Out of a total revenue for the whole State of one hundred lakhs of rupees, the revenue from land amounts to over forty lakhs.
And wool and woollen goods, to the value of about two lakhs of rupees, are also exported, besides a few miscellaneous articles, and some 4000 live animals, mostly sheep and goats.
We laid out ten lakhs in irrigation, another five lakhs in roads, a vast deal more in introducing European machinery and supervision; raised the whole sum by an average rate on cotton cultivation--and what is the result?
Three lakhs of rupees were given to the Khan, and his yearly subsidy of Rs.
The large fisheries sold for substantial sums, the total annual revenue being about five lakhs of rupees.
One morning, having packed on elephants the contents of the Treasury, some lakhs of rupees, he fled with his plunder across the frontier.
The annals of Rajasthan furnish numerous instances of lavish expenditure, varying from five to ten lakhs of Rupees and upwards, on the solemnization of nuptials.
Whilst writing this I am told Maharajah Jotendro Mohun Tagore is said to have expended about two lakhs of rupees in the marriage of his nephew.
Ten to fifteen lakhs of Rupees worth of articles are sold this day in three or four hours, the general impression being that such bargains bring good luck both to the buyer and the seller.
Besides these presents in money to Brahmins upwards of two lakhs of Rupees were given to the poor.
In his prosperous days, this rich zemindar paid an annual revenue of fifty-two lakhs of Rupees to the East India Company.
The total expenditure, according to native accounts, amounted to nearly 185 lakhs of rupees.
Besides the lavish expenditure on the building, lakhs of rupees were spent in providing the richest of Persian silk carpets, golden lamps, and magnificent candlesticks.
There was in particular the sheet of pearls which Shah Jahan had caused to be made for the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, of the value of several lakhs of rupees, which was spread over it on the anniversary and on Friday nights.
From it we learn that it was built by Shah Jahan, it took seven years to build, and cost three lakhs of rupees.
Why this would be at least eight lakhs of rupees; where are we to get such a sum?
And the sum of the whole is three lakhs and eighty-five thousand rupees.
To gain this was an object on which Cheetoo had set his heart, as he had heard it amounted to many lakhs of rupees, and it belonged to the detested Europeans.
I have heard that one of the greatest traders to Indoor and Malwa is about to send not less than two lakhs of rupees thither.
Sultan accepted "ten lakhs of oons"[89] and agreed to the execution of a treaty.
These nobles are like renters who hold all the land from the King, and besides keeping all these people they have to pay their cost; they also pay to him every year sixty LAKHS of rents as royal dues.
The lands, they say, yield a hundred and twenty LAKHS of which they must pay sixty to the King, and the rest they retain for the pay of the soldiers and the expenses of the elephants which they are obliged to maintain.
The cathedral of St Paul's is described with great minuteness of detail, and the expense of its erection stated at seventy-three lakhs of rupees, (about L.
Thou must know he was adopted son of that Baji Rao whom the accursed Feringhis put down from being peshwa, and tried to soothe with a pension of eight lakhs of rupees.
Yar Mahomed clutched at this; but turning the proposed garrison into a British force to be located in the valley of Herat, declared that, on the payment of two lakhs of rupees, he would give his assent to the measure.
Thirty lakhs went last week to Bombay, and twenty-nine are now at Ferozepore, waiting for transmission.
We have set apart twolakhs of rupees for our expenses to Peshawur, which is twenty-four yaboos’ loads.
As a reward for these services, Akbar Khan was to receive an annuity of four lakhs of rupees from the British Government, and a bonus of thirty lakhs!
Mahomed Shah Khan,[248] however, had undertaken to work upon their known love of money, and asked whether the British were prepared to pay two lakhs of rupees for safe conduct to Jellalabad.
I rejoice to think that scores of lakhs of rupees have been spent on public offices at a place called Simla, that scores and scores will be spent on the Delhi-Kalka line, in order that civilised people may go there in comfort.
That money, lakhs and lakhs of money, had been lavished on the wonder impressed me but little.
They say that one of the estimable class is now suing a bank for about three lakhs of rupees.
On the contrary, they administer it very scientifically and raise, as has been said, about thirty-eight lakhs from it.
Besides becoming safeguards to travellers and goods, they used to stand security to the amount of many lakhs of rupees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lakhs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
