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.
Page 396.
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