Major Price’s Extracts from the Mualiat-i-Ddrd Shekohi. 55 
THE THIRTEENTH MYSTERY OF DISCOURSE THE THIRD. 
To know what constitutes a Koruh ; or, on the measure of distances: 
taken from the Akbar-ndmah. 
Our august sovereign, who holds the empire of the world, considering 
that the survey and measurement of roads have an essential influence on 
the prosperity of nations, has devoted much and serious attention to the 
subject ; it was therefore not without the fullest deliberation that he finally 
determined to estimate distances from place to place by the measurement of 
a Korih,* each Korih consisting of one hundred cords,t and each cord 
or chain of fifty royal Gaz; also of four hundred poles, or bamboos, each 
of twelve Gaz and a half in length; either of which will give to the Korth 
the length of five thousand Gaz. 
Shir Khan had previously determined the Koruéh at sixty Jarib, each of 
three hundred Stkandari Gaz; which obtained in the government of 
. Delhi. In Malwah, the Koruh comprized ninety cords, or chains, each of 
sixty Gaz; and in Guzerat, distances were estimated by the Gav, or ox, |j 
that is to say, the distance at which the lowing of an ox may be heard at 
the hour of repose, or perhaps in the stillness of night; which those who 
have had experience on the subject have determined to be fifty Jaribs, or 
fifteen thousand Gaz. In Bengal, again, they reckoned by the Dhibiah,§ 
which has been determined to be the distance that a person swift of foot 
can run over in one breathing; or, according to others, such a distance as 
one may dispatch while a leaf, which has been placed green in the turban, 
shall have withered. 
In works of science of former times, treating on the properties of bodies 
and of distances, we are instructed that the circumference of the ter- 
restrial globe is eight thousand farsangs; but according to more recent 
authorities it has been estimated at six thousand eight hundred, both, 
however, calculating the farsang at three korwh. But the former authority 
estimates the korih at three thousand gaz, of thirty-two fingers’** breadth 
each, and the latter at four thousand gaz of twenty-four fingers’ breadth.tt 
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++ The result of both is precisely the same as to the length of the korith, viz., ninety-six 
thousand fingers. 
