Danda (unit)

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The danda or rod is a measure of length in Kashmir especially for land surveying. It was also used as a square measure. As an Indian hour, it was the sixtieth part of the day, or 24 minutes .

  • 1 Danda = 4 Ilahy- Guz = 11 feet (engl.)

The area dimension was derived from the Bega:

  • 1 danda = 4 square guz
  • 1 Bega = 900 Danda

literature

  • Encyclopedia of geography, ethnology and national studies: a geographical-statistical representation of the parts of the earth, countries, seas, islands, mountains, mountains, foothills ... together with the geographical-astronomical determinations of the location of the places. Volume 2, Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1866, p. 1196.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Alexander Hügel: Kashmir and the Empire of the Siek. Volume 4, Hallbergersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1842, p. 57.