Money
In colloquial Urdu, especially in the city of Karachi, the word "peti" is also used to denote one Lakh rupees. This originated during the General Zia era, when the largest denomination of currency was the 100 rupee note and one lakh rupees would fill a small suitcase (peti as in Bombay Hindi) hence, even after the Zia era, one peti means one lakh rupees.
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Famous quotes containing the word money:
“Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“I have defeated them all.... I was left with some money to battle with the world when quite young, and at the present time have much to feel proud of.... The Lord gave me talent, and I know I have done good with it.... For my brains have made me quite independent and without the help of any man.”
—Harriet A. Brown, U.S. inventor and educator. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 8, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992)
“Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare,
The house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square;
Ah, such a life, such a life, as one leads at the window there!”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)