Morah

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The Morah , also Murah, was an East Indian mass unit and was used for grain and especially for rice in Bombay and other places in this region.

  • 1 Morah = 4 Candy = 25 Parah = 500 Adowlies = 3750 Seer = 7500 Tipree / Tiprih
  • 1 Morah = 391 4/5 kilograms corresponds to 880.9 liters
  • Mysore : 1 Morah = 40 Seer Pucca

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 201
  2. ^ Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for business people in general. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 52
  3. ↑ 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. 270