Vassa (unit)
Vassa , also Wassa , was a unit of mass (measure of weight) in Delhi and Surate, the former district capital in the British-Indian Presidency of Bombay . The measure was a pearl weight .
The dimensional chain was
- 1 tank = 24 rutters = 480 vassas = 30.32575 grams
literature
- Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values and proportions to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 467.
- Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight ..., Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 463.