Palgat

The Palgat , also Pahlgaht or Paulgaut , was a rear Indian measure of length and common in Rangoon , Pegu and Ava , regions in what is now Myanmar . It was roughly the length of an English inch.

• 1 palgat = 11¼ Parisian lines about 2.5071 centimeters

The dimensional chain was something like:

• 1 Taim = 18 Palgat / Pahlgaht / Paulgaut = 202.5 Parisian lines = 5/11 meters , about 0.4545 meters

literature

• Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 247.

See also

Burmese system of measurement

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of practical merchants: The latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers. Volume 2, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 346.
2. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 224.