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1615 T. Coryate Let. in Crudities (1776) III. sig. L6 The whole Present was worth ten of their Leakes, as they call them; a Leak being ten thousand pound sterling.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iii. 216 Euery Crou is an hundred Leckes, and euery Leck is an hundred thousand Rupiæ.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. i. ix. 18 Great sums of money are reckoned by Leks, Crouls.

1692 in J. T. Wheeler Madras in Olden Time (1861) I. 262 A lak of Pagodas.

1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 145 Whilst Patriots of presented lacks complain, And Courtiers brib'ry to excess arraign.

1802 J. Wolcot Great Cry & Little Wool in Wks. (1812) V. 175 The lacks are not easily got Nor honestly made in a hurry.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xliii Making rather too free with jaghires, lakhs, gold mohurs.

1871 S. Mateer Travancore 72 The annual revenue of the Travancore State amounts..to about forty lacs of rupees.

1955 Times 3 Aug. 2/6 Detailed prospecting, which has so far cost 19·80 lakhs of rupees, led to the location of iron ore in Kalabagh and its suburbs in the Punjab.

1971 Weekend (Ceylon) 12 Sept. 3/2 The project would cost four lakhs of rupees.

1972 Times of India 28 Nov. 5/3 The parcel actually contained 900 Japanese-made wrist watches worth Rs. 2 lakhs.

1975 Bangladesh Times 18 July 1/3 The Finance Minister said that the Government had already increased the ceiling of private investment for setting up industries from Tk 25 lakh to Taka three crore.

2011 Times of India (Nexis) 30 Jan. Over 100 Indian CEOs, who have spent anywhere between $50,000 (over Rs 22 lakh) and $1 million (Rs 4.5 crore) to attend the event.