Astah
The Astah was an East Indian measure of length and was considered a cubit measure in Singapore and on the Prince of Wales Island .
- 1 Astah = 202 13/25 Parisian lines = 456 millimeters = ½ yard (engl.)
The cubit was also used to determine the field measure. As a square Astah, the measure was derived from the Orlong.
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Mendelssohn, Handbook of Coin, Measure and Weight Studies, taking into account the new coin and weight system, with extensive reduction tables, Horvarth'sche Buchhandlung, Potsdam 1859, p. 120
- ↑ August Schiebe: Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer Leipzig and the Schumann Brothers Zwickau 1839, p. 68
- ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 413