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.

1 orlong = 25,600 square astahs = 53.51 arenas

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

[1] 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

[2] 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

[3] Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 413