Cando

Cando , also Kando, Kandi and Kondo, was a measure of length in East India and was the large cubit .

In Goa it was the canvas cell and had a length of 17 cubits (Dutch). In Myanmar , the length was equal to the Venetian cubit (636.8 millimeters ).

• 1 cando = 528 1/5 Parisian lines = 1.191 meters

Cando was also a Peruvian measure of length. The cubit measure should have been equal to the Venetian cubit with 636.8 millimeters.

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 32, 133.
• Johann Georg Krünitz , Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 7, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1810, p. 618.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jurende's patriotic pilgrims: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 37.