Jarbe

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Jarbe was a measure of length in the former British East Indian Calcutta .

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 Cubit / Haut = 2 Gheriahs / Gurahs = 4 Angullos = 12 Jarbes = 457.19 millimeters

Individual evidence

  1. August Schiebe: Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Volume 1, Friedrich Fleischer and the Schumann brothers, Leipzig / Zwickau 1837, p. 293.