Varahun

The Varahun was an Indian weight in the Madras Presidency of the United Kingdom and was called the Malabar weight by the English . This included the Gursay, Baruay / Candie, Maunds / Manungu and the smaller Vis / Visaya.

1 Varahun = 52 ¾ English Troy Grän = 3.4182 grams (= 3.38573 grams)
1 Maund / Manungu = 8 Visay / Vis = 320 Pollams = 3200 Varahuns
10 Varahuns = 1 Pollam , 40 Pollams = 1 Vis or Visay

literature

Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 18. Altenburg 1864, p. 361.
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. 345.

Individual evidence

↑ James Daniel, Friedrich Bödeker: James Daniel's manual for ship owners and captains about port costs, dimensions, weight and coins in the most exquisite ports in the world. Volume 1, C. Schünemann's Verlagbuchhandlung, Bremen 1851, p. 386.
^ Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for business people in general. Or full dictionary […]. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 546.

[1] James Daniel, Friedrich Bödeker: James Daniel's manual for ship owners and captains about port costs, dimensions, weight and coins in the most exquisite ports in the world. Volume 1, C. Schünemann's Verlagbuchhandlung, Bremen 1851, p. 386.

[2] Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for business people in general. Or full dictionary […]. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 546.