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A masha is a traditional Indian unit of mass, [1] now standardized as 0.972 grams (0.0343 oz). [citation needed] The essential unit of mass used in India included ratti, masha, tola, chattank, seer and maund. Grain is usually taken is rice 8 grains of rice = 1 Ratti 8 Ratti = 1 Masha 12 Masha = 1 Tola 5 Tola = 1 chatank 16 chatank = 1 Saer. 40 ...
It was also used in Aden and Zanzibar: in the latter, one tola was equivalent to 175.90 troy grains (0.97722222 British tolas, or 11.33980925 grams). [ 2 ] The tola is a Vedic measure, with the name derived from the Sanskrit तोलः tolaḥ (from the root तुल् tul ) meaning "weighing" or "weight". [ 3 ]
Conversion. 1 Bhari = 11.66375 gram 3.75 Troy ounce = 10 Bhari Weight of 64 Dhan (Wheat berries) = Weight of 45 Jau (Barley corns) Weight of 1 Barley corn = 64.79891 milligrams Commodity Weight System. 1 Bhari = 4 Siki 1 Kancha = 5 Siki 1 Chhataank = 4 Kancha 1 Chhataank = 5 Bhari 1 Adh-pav = 2 Chhatank = 1/8 Seer
A Satamana was used as a standard weight of silver coins of Gandhara between 600–200 BCE. Ratti is also known for its attractive colour. [5] Other Indian currency weights like Karshapanas were also based on the weight of ratti. Gold coins excavated from southeast Asia have been analysed as following the ratti based weight system as well. [6]
Mass; system unit unit-code symbol or abbrev. notes sample default conversion combinations SI: kilogram: kg kg 1.0 kg (2.2 lb) kg lb. kg lb st; kg st. kg st lb; gram: g g
Full metrication with the passage of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1956, [5] now replaced by the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976: [6] these Acts quote the legal conversion factors for imperial units to SI units. Exact conversions can be made for customary units if they had previously been defined in terms of imperial ...
According to Adani, in the silver coinage known as the Mughal India rupaiya, minted during British colonial rule (each with a weight of 11.6638038 grammes (1 tola), of which weight only 91.7% was of fine silver), one talent (Heb. kikkar) would have amounted to 2,343 of these silver coins in specie (27.328 kilograms (60.25 lb)), in addition to ...
The use of a quarter-seer weight in Ahmedabad had also been noted in a British East India Company survey of South Asian metrology carried out in 1821: the name of the unit was not recorded, but it would have been equivalent to 4 oz. 3 dr. 17 gr. avoirdupois (119.8 grams) based on the measurement of the Ahmedabad seer. [5]