Sadang (unit)

Sadang , Sandang, Saundaung were an Indian measure of length and corresponded to the cubit . The measure had spread in Pegu and Ava , regions in what is now Myanmar . The peculiarity of the measure was the arbitrary determination of the length by the respective ruler. The Reichselle, also royal cubit, as it was also called, was at the beginning of the 19th century:

1 Sadang = 248 Parisian lines = 559.44 millimeters (= 5/9 meters = 0.5555 meters )
7 Sadang = 1 Dha / Bamboo
7000 sadang = 1 dain / mile
1 Sandang = 22 inches / Palgouts / Palgat / Pahlgaht / Paulgaut

literature

Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 512.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b August Schiebe : Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer / Gebrüder Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 13.
^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 289
^ Association of practical merchants: The latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers. Volume 2, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 346.

[Schiebe-1] August Schiebe : Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer / Gebrüder Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 13.

[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. 289

[3] Association of practical merchants: The latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers. Volume 2, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 346.