Saga (unit)

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Saga was a gold and silver weight in India , particularly on the island of Sumatra and Prince of Wales . It was regionally dependent and was different according to the chosen size.

  • 1 saga = variable

The measure, a smaller one from the Buncal , was written like this in the chain

  • 1 Buncal = 16 Miams = 192 Sagas = 53,967 grams

and in the dimensional chain of the weight of gold and silver was Tikal

  • 1 Tikal = 4 Salungs = 8 Fuangs = 16 Song-p'hais = 32 P-hai-nung = 32768 Sagas

The term sagas stands for the red beans after which the measure was named. The bean seed is from the Abrus precatorius plant (paternoster pea). 32 sagas were also a P-hai-nung.

literature

  • August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science, containing: coin, measure and weight, bills of exchange, government paper, banking and stock exchange; the most important of higher arithmetic […]. Volume 2, Friedrich Fleischer / Gebrüder Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1838, p. 203.
  • Jurende's Vaterländischer Pilger: 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 all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brno 1834.
  • Joseph Meyer: The great conversation lexicon for the educated classes. Volume 4, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1844, p. 352.