Bamboo (unit)

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Bamboo or Bämbuh was an East Indian volume and grain measure in Aceh , an Indonesian province on the northwest tip of the island of Sumatra .

  • 1 bamboo (rice) = 1824 grams
  • 8 bamboos = 1 nelli
  • 64 bamboos = 1 gunschah
  • 640 bamboos = 1 coyan

The salt trade was used to calculate

  • 1 Parah = 25 Bamboos or Punihs

As a measure of length, the bamboo was a smaller measure of the dain or mile in Ava and Pegu and was called Dha. 100 dah / bamboos gave 1 dain.

literature

  • Joseph Johann von Littrow , Carl Ludwig von Littrow : JJ v. Litrow's comparison of the most excellent measures, weights and coins with those used in the Austrian imperial state. Beck, 1844.
  • Association of scholars and practical merchants: trade lexicon or encyclopedia of all trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers. Volume 1, Verlag Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 128.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 14, limited preview in the Google book search, comment: based on the indication of 3 Prussian pounds 28 lot 3.5 quents = 3 Viennese pounds 8 lot 1 quent, which results in about 1824g each. The specification 1524 3 ⁄ 8  grams therefore seems to be a misprint. The specification of 3 pound 10 5 ⁄ 6  ounces also fits when using the dutch pound (page 257) of 496g