Pantjar
The Pantjar or Padei was a field and area measure in Java . It was used to measure rice fields.
- Batavia : 1 Pantjar = 2000 square rods (deviating: 283.8 hectares )
- East Java 1 Pantjar = 4 Bouw / Bahoe = 283.8596 hectares
literature
- MRB Gerhardt: General Contorist or most recent and present times, usually coin, measure and weight constitution. Volume 2, Arnold Weber, Berlin 1792, p. 29.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit lexicon. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 978-3-52806-987-2 , p. 310.
- ↑ E. Behm and collective authors: Geographisches Jahrbuch. Volume 1, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1866, p. XIX.