Candy (unit)

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The candy (pronounced: Kändi) was a measure of weight in Travancore , in front of India in today's state of Kerala , a province of the former Madras presidency . The difference in measure was determined by the different pound measures Rattel and Putur .

  • 1 candy = 30 tulama = 600 putur / pound = 271 kilograms
  • 1 candy = 20 Maund / Mahnd = 500 rattel / pound = 227 kilograms

literature

  • Hermann Julius Meyer: The large conversation lexicon for the educated classes: Supplement. Printing and publishing of the Bibliographisches Institut, Hildburghausen 1853, p. 168.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1243.