128 Meynard's Ibn Khordddbeh. [No. 2, 



1 Modd = 292J Dirhems = 204f Mithqals = 14040 grains = 

 2 J Iraqy or Baghdadian Rods = 1J Rod of Madyna = 3120 Raties. 



According to some, one Modd= 257| Dirhems. 



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

 grains = 12480 Raties. 



1 Korr = 1200 'Iraqy Rods = 533J Modd = 133J Qtf = 

 156000 Dirhems = 109201 Mithqals = 7488000 grains = 2070f| 

 Sers. 



1 Wisq = 60 g 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 6^ 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 \ 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 Mana have different values in different 

 authors. According to Abu. i7anyfa 1 £a' 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~ Rods. On the 

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

 260 Drachmas appendebat. Mana segyptiaca, pondus sedecim uncia- 

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

 unciarum. (Casiri 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 G-olius, 1 Qafyz = 12 (^a's ; or if we take the 

 5a', with Abd Hanyfa, to 8 Rods == 96 Rods. 



We find in the Qamtis also the following explanation of the 

 Qafyz, 0.-&U ^iJi ±+i 4* j^ j ^^ [ i j$ ) °«*# *XjJ *&J (*& 



