Pherra

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The Pherra , also Parah, was an East Indian measure of weight . The measure was intended for rice , grain and dry goods.

Had in Surate in the Bombay presidency

  • 1 Pherra = 20 Pallis / Palies = about 34 kilograms = 34.015 kilograms

The Palie / Pallie weighed 1701 ⅛ grams .

The smaller measure, the palie / pallie, was very different in other regions such as Calcutta .

  • Calcutta 1 pallie = 4 liters

Here was the dimensional chain of that weight

  • 1 pallie = 4 rolks = 16 kunkes = 80 chataks
  • 1 mahon = 8 pallies
  • 1 Soalli = 20 Pallies
  • 1 candil = 160 pallies
  • 1 Kahun = 320 Pallies = 4.234 kilograms ( Bengal )

literature

  • Marcus Rudolf Balthasar Gerhardt: General clerk or, in the most recent and present times, the usual coin, measure and weight constitution of all countries and trading cities. Volume 2, Arnold Wever, Berlin 1792.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer Leipzig and the Schumann Brothers Zwickau 1839, p. 281.
  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. 248.
  3. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 225.
  4. ^ JH Kaltschmidt: The latest and most complete foreign dictionary to explain all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870, p. 620.
  5. ↑ R. Klimpert: Lexicon of coins, dimensions, weights, counting types and time sizes. Verlag C. Regenhardt, Berlin 1896, p. 262.