Kurwar

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Kurwar was a unit of mass ( measure of weight) in Kashmir .

1 Kurwar = 16 Tarot = 96 Pau = 7104 Tola
1 Kurwar = 197 pounds plus 12 ounces of avoirdupois

Note : no relation to the chorak (unit) and pau (unit)

literature

Wilhelm Hoffmann: Encyclopedia of Earth, Ethnology and State Studies: a geographical-statistical representation of the parts of the earth, countries, seas, islands, mountains, mountains, foothills ... together with the geographical-astronomical determinations of the location of the places. K to Radruz. Volume 2, Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1866, p. 1196.