Hardary

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The Hardary , also the Coss , Cos , was a measure of length and, as the so-called Bengal Mile in Seringapatam (East India), had a length of 1828.767 meters , i.e. about 1 1/5 English. Mile (3.65 miles).

  • 1 degree equator = 60.76 Hardary / Coss
  • 1 Hardary Fathoms = 1000 = 2000 yard (Engl.)
  • 1 hardary = 6000 gujahs

The Gujah / Guz was calculated with 433.491 Parisian lines or 38.5 inches = 0.9776 meters.

  • 4 Hardary = 1 Gavada / Gavehda or a day trip

In the British East Indian state of Mysore , the measurements were

  • 1 Hardary / Hardari = 6000 Gjuhdschahs = 19,250 feet (English) = 6.85 miles (English) = 5867.3 meters

The commonly used hardary was 25% smaller than the legal one and so it was

  • 1 Hardary = 4500 Gjuhdschahs = 14,437 ⅓ feet (English) = 2.8875 miles (English) = 4400.5 meters
  • 4 Hardary = 1 Gavada / Gavehda or a day trip
  • 1 Coss = 4000 Covid ( Bombay , Calcutta , Madras )
  • 1 Coss = 1.7888 kilometers

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 388.
  2. ↑ Georg Thomas Flügel: Course slip continued as a manual for coin, measure, weight and Customs. Publisher LF Huber Verlag der Jäger'schen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1859, p. 270.
  3. ^ Association of practical merchants: Latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers: Volume 2. Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 563.
  4. ^ Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher , Johann H. Bock, Heinrich Christian Kandelhardt: Pocket book of coin, measure and weight for merchants. Sander'sche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1832, p. 430.
  5. ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1117.
  6. ^ JH Kaltschmidt: The latest and most complete foreign dictionary to explain all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1860, p. 174.