Murah

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The Murah was an East Indian mass unit and was considered the so-called rice measure in the British East Indian Presidency of Bombay . Rice was mainly sold in bags. This sack weighed 76.2 kilograms and was equivalent to 6 Bombaymahnds.

  • 1 Murah = 4 Candy = 25 Parahs = 500 Adowlies = 3750 Seers = 7500 Tipprees
  • 1 Murah = 863 ¾ pounds of Avoirdupois = 391.788 kilograms
  • 1 candy = 97.947 kilograms or 881 liters

literature

  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 140

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 73
  2. ↑ Ludolph Schleier: The commercial science. Fest'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1848, p. 95