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In Hindi 2½ Seer = Dhai (2½) Seer, or Dhaser 1 Paseri = 2 Adisari = 5 Seer In Hindi 5 Seer = Panch (5) Seer, or Paseri for short 1 Daseri = 2 Pasri = 10 Seer In Hindi 10 Seer = Das (10) Seer, or Daseri for short 1 Maund (maan or man[मण]) = 4 Daseri = 8 Pasri = 40 Seer Rice and Grains Volume Measures. Grains were not weighed.
Navdhānya or Navadhaniyam refers to nine food grains namely wheat, paddy, pigean pea, hyacinth bean, chickpea, mung bean, sesame, black gram and horse gram. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Navdhānya means "nine grains" in several Indian languages and form an essential part of Indian cuisine .
The grain was the legal foundation of traditional English weight systems, [5] and is the only unit that is equal throughout the troy, avoirdupois, and apothecaries' systems of mass. [6]: C-6 The unit was based on the weight of a single grain of barley which was equal to about + 4 ⁄ 3 the weight of a single grain of wheat.
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Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [ 2 ]
A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and legumes . After being harvested, dry grains are more durable than other staple foods , such as starchy fruits ( plantains , breadfruit , etc.) and tubers ( sweet potatoes , cassava , and more).
The Roman goddess Ceres presided over agriculture, grain crops, fertility, and motherhood; [9] the term cereal is derived from Latin cerealis, "of grain", originally meaning "of [the goddess] Ceres". [10] Several gods of antiquity combined agriculture and war: the Hittite Sun goddess of Arinna, the Canaanite Lahmu and the Roman Janus. [11]
The name Jeera Bhaat is a compound of two Hindi words: Jeera and Bhaat. The word Jeera (or Jīrā in IAST ) is derived from the Sanskrit word Jīraka , [ 3 ] which means cumin seeds. The word Bhaat is derived from the Sanskrit word Bhakta meaning "boiled rice". [ 4 ]