Gantas
Gantas was a measure of weight in various places around the Strait of Malacca and also in Queda . The Gantas measure should not be confused with the Gantan .
- 1 Gantas / Guantas = 4 Guppas = 1 15/16 = 1.9375 pounds of mark weight (but only 1.875 calculated from Bahar)
- 16 Gantas / Guantas = 1 Hali / Nali
- 15 halis = 1 bahar = 450 pounds mark weight
literature
- Johann Georg Krünitz, Friedrich Jakob Flörke, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia . Volume 20, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1780, p. 357
- Johann Theodor Jablonski, Johann Joachim Schwabe: General Lexicon of Arts and Sciences, or clear description of the realm of nature, the heavens and heavenly bodies, the air, the earth, along with the known plants, animals, stones and ores, the sea and of the creatures living in it. Volume 1, Zeisen's widow and Hartung's heirs, Königsberg / Leipzig 1767, p. 569
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 105