Harra (unit)

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The Harra measure was a commercial weight and was divided into the small and large Harra and was common in the East Indies in the Presidency of Bombay . The Maund weighed about 12.7 kilograms .

  • 1 small Harra = 7 Maunds
  • 1 large Harra = 21 Maunds

literature

  • Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1206

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 463