Carival

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The carival , also called carval, was a volume measure for grain in Aurangabad in the Bombay presidency . The type of grain made differences. In addition to the volume measure, the carival was also a bill of exchange and a fifth of the current rupee .

  • 1 Carival = 60 Cosans / Cossas = 240 Tiwiers / Twiers = 960 Pöttocks / Puttoees
  • Wheat 1 carival = 24 Pucca-Maunds
  • Barley 1 carival = 19 Pucca-Maunds
  • Rice, unpeeled 1 carival = 20 Pucca-Maunds

The Maund was calculated at 33.868 kilograms and had this dimensional chain

  • 1 Pucca-Maund = 40 Sihra / Seera = 640 Annas = 2560 Pei's / Pice
  • 1 Maund = 33.717 kilograms

literature

  • Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking system and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Johann Michael Leuchs: Der Kontorwissenschaft, part: The instructions to calculate all incidents in trade, in common and higher business with insight, containing. The latest in money, coins, measurements and weights for merchants, businessmen and newspaper readers. Volume 3, published by E. Leuch and Komp, Nuremberg 1834 p. 38.
  2. ^ Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher, Johann H. Bock, Heinrich Christian Kandelhardt: Pocket book of coin, measure and weight for merchants. Sandersche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1832, p. 307.