Puddalum

Puddalum , also Puddalam or Pöddalömm , was a unit of mass ( measure of weight) for cotton . The measure was twice the five-quarter Sihr . The measure was used in the area of Visakhapatnam , in the British Presidency of Madras on the Coromandel coast in the Indian suburbs. The units of measurement are converted to the units commonly used today as follows:

• 1 Pöddalömm = 680.385 grams
• 1 Pöddalömm = 2 Jäbbolömm / Yabbolum
• 1 Kändi / Candy = 20 Mahnds = 320 Pöddalömm

literature

• Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, government papers, bills of exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading venues. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 655.