Mora (measure)
The mora was a measure of weight for grain , especially rice . The measure applied in the Bombay presidency .
- 1 Mora = 25 Para / Pherra = 500 Adolmen / Adalme = 3750 Seers
- 1 Mora rice = 793 ⅛ pounds (Amsterdam = 494 grams ) = 391.907 kilograms
literature
- Philipp Eissenbeiss: New general clerk or manual for the knowledge of exchange and government paper prices: the bill and minted coins, the dimensions and weights of all countries in and outside Europe, with their appropriate comparisons with each other . Volume 1, Hinrichs, Bautzen 1830, p. 171.
Individual evidence
- ^ Samuel Ricard, Thomas Heinrich Gadebusch: Handbook of the merchants. Volume 2, Anton Ferdinand Röse, Greifswald 1784, p. 85.