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O.u ihe Statist ic^ of Duhhun, 



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Goldsmiths' tccights.— 'lhc lowest gi«lclsinilli.s' wci^lit is nominally 

 the imistard seetl. but the lowest I mot with was the (roowy, a scod ol 

 the p;v'( o/o/n(A', the moan weight of which was 1-91410 grains 



trov : i'tl ijoo;//* make a /o//«//, which shouKl ihoiolore weigh 18;)7'''i'> 

 grains tioy ; but as the to/ioli is tlie 7'2d part of a seer of 13,800 grains, 

 it shonld weigh liil ,( 60 grains troy ; the goUlsu)ilhs' weights in nse 

 consequently are beli w ibe m standard. Eiglit (/oohj or four waals* 



make one vias:sa/i, and twelve uid^ta/i one lolioh I put the goldsmith's 

 weights to the same test in ditierent unis of the conntry, 1 did those of 

 cajiaciiy, and found that two weights of the same denomination in dif- 

 ferent shops were seldom nniloini. I lie scales used by goldsmitlis are 

 called Kantah, and are of metal ; those used by d(\alers generally are 

 called Tajicu or Tagn e, and are made of leather or parchment. 



Ithierixrii and Lyng Mt amres, — Distances between places are cAY/'ma/e^/ 

 by the Kohss (cots), I cannot say measured, for 1 believe the actual deter- 

 mination of ciistantes bet ween places was as little attended to by the 

 native governments, ;is the facilitating commuuications through tlie 

 country by the eontlruetii)n tif roads and brivlges. I Ihhik the Kohs 

 averages about two miles English, varyiug, however, from \h to 

 miles. In Mahratta writings long measure is raised from the barley- 

 corn : 8 Juw or barleycorns make a Bohl or finger, 24 fingers a Haht or 

 cubit, (18 iuihcs), 4 cubits a Dimoosh (a bow) or fathom, measured by a 

 man's outspread arms, and 8000 cubits or 2C00 fathoms a Kohs. The 

 Kohs therefore would equal 2^ English miles and 40 yards. In Sanscrit 2 

 Kohs make a Guwyotce, and 2 of the latter make a Yojun or 9 miles and 

 160 yards; but these terms are unknown to the common people. In fact, 

 however, the measure of length originates in the well-known l/aht or 

 cubit, determined by tlie mean hvgth of five men's arms, meafjnred 

 from the elbow-joint to the end of the middle finger: the Haht or cubit 

 so determined, is a little more than 18 inches in length; this is divided 

 into 2 M^eets or spans, into 6 Mooshlees or fists, and each fist into 4 Bohts 

 or fingers, and the latter into 8 barleycorns each. Taib)rsand sellers of 

 cloth use a Guj, which is divided into 16 Glurra, each of 14 TussoOj 

 each Tus&oo of 2 Bohts, and as each Boht is equal to a fraction more 

 than I of an inch, the Guj would be a little more than an Englisli yard. 



Superficial Measure. — The only land measure of any exact and a])pre- 

 ciable extent is the Beegah, v\hich is of Moosulman derivation, but by 

 some referred to the Sanscrit word Weegruhuh, although this word is 

 not applied to land measurements ; and as all genuine Mahratta terms 



* Waal is the seed of the Osalpiaia sappan. 



