Laha (field measure)

Laha was a yardstick on the British-Indian island of Ceylon . It was a sowing rate depending on soil properties and seed quality.

• 1 Laha = 3.4579 square meters
• 1 Amomam / Ammomam = 4 Peylas = 40 Coornies = 320 Lahas = 1.10652 hectares

literature

• August Schiebe: Universal encyclopedia of commercial science, containing: coin, measure and weight, bills of exchange, government paper, banking and stock exchange; the most important of higher arithmetic […]. Volume 2, Friedrich Fleischer and the Schumann brothers, Leipzig / Zwickau 1838, p. 226.