Puddy

The puddy was a measure of volume in the east Indian Madras (today Chennai ).

In addition to the grain measure, it was also a liquid measure. Both dimensions were the same. Only milk , oil and purified butter could be measured as a measure of liquid . Wine and spirits were lit up according to the old English measures.

The dimensional chain was the measure of liquid

• 1 Kändi / Candy = 20 Marcals = 160 Puddys = 1280 Ollucks = 245.8 liters

and the grain measure

• 1 Gars / Garce = 80 Parahs = 400 Marcals
• 1 Marcals = 8 Puddys = 64 Ollucks
• 1 puddy = 77.445 Parisian cubic inches = 1.5362 liters (calculated 1.536875 liters)

See also

• Puddy as an oil measure

literature

• Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios ..., Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 587.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of coin, measure and weight ratios ..., Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 587
2. ^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 257