128 McynanVs llm EhordddbeJi. [No. 2, 



1 Modd = 2921 Dirhems = 204f Mithqals = 14040 grains = 

 21 Iraqy or Baghdadian Rods = 1| Rod of Madyna = 3120 Raties. 



According to some, one Modd = 257| Dirhems. 



1 Ca' = 4 Modd = 1170 Dirhems = 819 Mithqals = 56108 

 grains = 12480 Raties. 



1 Korr = 1200 'Iraqy Rods = 5331 Modd = 133J Ca' = 

 156000 Dirhems = 109201 Mithqals = 7488000 grains = 2070 jf 

 Sers. 



1 Wisq = 60 £ a'. 



The values of Arabic weights reduced to Indian weights in this 

 table, is certainly wrong. It is incomprehensible, how a man. in his 

 senses could believe that one Paysa is as heavy as 6f „ Dynars or 9 

 Dirhems. This error seems to arise from the supposition that an 

 Indian grain is exactly equal to the largest Arabic grain, of which 68^ 

 are sufficient to make a Mithqal, and 4937-f one Roman pound. Some 

 other data of this table are probably equally incorrect, yet it contains 

 some information which may be useful. 



The value of cubic measures for grain is expressed by the Arabs in 

 the weight of the quantity of barley which they contain. At this 

 moment I have no book in which they are explained, and I must refer 

 to dictionaries Their explanations unfortunately do not square, 

 because the Qa' and the Mami have different values in different 

 authors. According to Abu ZZanyfa 1 Ca' of Barley = 8 Rods; ac- 

 cording to Shafi'y = 5J Rod ; according to the Shy'ites = 9 Rods ; 

 and according to Kolyug = 1170 Dirhams =■ 9 T \ Rods. On the 

 Maiiit Meninsky says: apud Arabes Hispanos duas libras, apud Asiatas 

 2'JU Drachmas appendehat. Mana segyptiaca, pondus sedecim uncia- 

 rum ; mana grajca, pondus 20 unciarum ; mana alexandrina pondus 30 

 unciarnm. (Gasiri Bib. ar-hisp.) 



The measures of importance for our present purpose are the Qafyz, 

 the Korr and the Jaryb. 



1 Qafyz = 8 Makkuk (which is not the name of a weight, but of 

 a cubic measure). Consequently 1 Qafyz = 8100 Mithqals === 90 

 Rods. According to Grolius, 1 Qafyz = 12 Ca's ; or if we take the 

 Ca', with Abu Hanyfa, to 8 Rods = 96 Rods. 



We find in the Qarnds also the following explanation of the 

 Qafyz, ii-«(j ^iJl 4>*J t>/c j^^- j ^*"# ':! J$ ) °*"# tyjj *#J (*& 



