parah

See also para.

In Sri Lanka, a unit of dry capacity, about 25.426 liters (about 23.1 U.S. dry quarts. Also romanized as para and parrah.

While the island was a British colony, the standard parrah was a cube 11.57 inches on a side¹, about 25.41 liters.

1. Robert Montgomery Martin.
History of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, North America, Asia...
London: W. H. Allen & Co. and George Routledge, 1843.

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