Zavah

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Zavah was a volume measure in Masulipatam ( Madras Presidency ). The grain measure was a small one.

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 Garce = 3 Candies = 240 Meecols = 1440 Mannikahs = 2880 Zavahs = 5760 Solahs = 11,520 Arsolahs = 23,040 Giddahs ≈ 3303.48 liters (calculated)

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. 473.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of practical merchants: trade lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers. Volume 4, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1849, p. 86.