Hundua

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The Hundua was the smallest volume measure for dry goods on Ceylon and in the city of Colombo .

It stood for a handful , a very imprecise native measure. The use of this measure can only be explained from the low knowledge (time-related) of the population of standard measures based on the European model. The division of the Amomams into 8 or 16 pherras in the northern part of the country also influenced the dependent dimensions. The Hundua was the so-called basic measure.

  • 1 handful = 2 Hunduas / Hundias = 1 Nellea = about 0.8 liters
  • 1 Amonam / Ammomam = 4 Palas = 40 Lochoo lahas = 60 Punchy lahas = 240 Nelleas = 480 Hunduas = 203.4 liters (= 203.52 liters)

literature

  • August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight ..., Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig and the Schumann brothers. Zwickau 1839, p. 325.
  • Heinrich August Pierer : Universal encyclopedia of the present and past or the latest encyclopedic dictionary of the sciences, arts and crafts. Volume 3, HA Pierer, Altenburg 1850, p. 814.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Alexander Bran : Ethnographic Archive. Bran'sche Buchhandlung, Jena 1821, Volume 15, p. 238.
  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. 89.
  3. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios ..., Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 201.
  4. ^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 213.