Pusseree

Pusseree , also Possare or Possari, was an East Indian measure of weight and was used in the English presidency of Bengal . It was designed for weights of liquids. Determining weight was often preferred to measuring volume in non-European regions. In terms of its size, it corresponded to the European unit of measure or jug .

• 1 possare = 366 grams (?)
• 1 Possare = 5 Seer = 20 Pice = 80 Chattaks (calculated from 1 Seer about 1366 grams)
  • Calcutta liquids: 1 Seer = 4 Pice = 16 Chattak = 273 1/5 grams
• 8 possars = 1 maon

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 256.
• August Schiebe: Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Fleischer / Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 294.
• Wilhelm Hoffmann: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for business people in general. Or a complete dictionary of trade, factories and manufacturers, customs, coin, measurement and weight studies, ... Otto Wigand publishing house, Leipzig 1838, p. 659.
• James Prinsep; Coins, Weight and Measures of British India. Useful Tables Forming an Appendix to the Journal of the [Bengal] Asiatic Society; 2nd supplemented edition. Calcutta 1840. p. 66. Digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann H. Bock: JC Nelkenbrechers Allgemeine Taschenbuch der Münz-, Maß- und Weights for bankers and merchants. Sander'sche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1832, p. 119.