Adowlie
Adowlie or Adowlin , also Adalme , was an East Indian measure of volume and capacity for grain , especially rice and salt, and was used in Bombay . Spellings such as Adauli, Adoulie or Engl. Adowly mark the measure. It was also used as a unit of mass (measure of weight).
There was a distinction between light and heavy adowlie.
Easy variant
- 1 candy = 128 adowlie = 8 parah
- 16 Adowlie = 1 Parah
- 1 Adowlie = 64 Seers = 128 Tiprees = 1982 kilograms
Heavy variant
- 1 Adowlie = 150 Seers = 300 Tiprees = 2031 kilograms
- 1 candy = 125 adowlie = 6 ¼ Parah
- 20 Adowlie = 1 Parah
literature
- Friedrich Albrecht Niemann : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 3
- Association of practical merchants: The latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers: Volume 1, Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 239
- Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old mass, coins and weights: e. Dictionary. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 14.
- Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit lexicon: terms, formulas and constants from natural sciences, technology and medicine. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-32283-211-5 , p. 26.
Individual evidence
- ^ Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 1, Altenburg 1857, p. 108.
- ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old mass, coins and weights: e. Dictionary. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 14.
- ^ John Henry Alexander: Universal dictionary of weights and measures, ancient and modern: reduced to the standards of the United States of America. WM. Minifie, Baltimore 1857, p. 138.